Perfect rhymes
Perfect rhymes repeat every sound from the stressed vowel to the end of the word.
1 syllable
2 syllables
- goodbye
- deny
- supply
- nearby
- apply
- july
- rely
- reply
- untie
- shanghai
- hereby
- defy
- standby
- comply
- imply
- thereby
- whereby
- bonsai
“fly” has 49 perfect rhymes in this list, from 1 to 2 syllables. The most common are my, why, and by. For a softer sound there are 40 near rhymes too, such as night, guys, and nice. The two example lines rhyme “fly” with “tie” and “eye”.
It rhymes with the same words as cry, sky and goodbye.
Perfect rhymes repeat every sound from the stressed vowel to the end of the word.
Near rhymes keep the vowel sound and change the consonants: softer, and there are many more of them.
We made a kite of newspaper and a tie
from Dad's closet, and it really learned to fly.
The airport window, and my brother's eye
pressed to the glass to watch the airplanes fly.
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