Perfect rhymes
Perfect rhymes repeat every sound from the stressed vowel to the end of the word.
1 syllable
- this
- miss
- sis
- swiss
- bliss
2 syllables
- dismiss
- abyss
- amiss
- remiss
3 syllables
- reminisce
“kiss” has 10 perfect rhymes in this list, from 1 to 3 syllables. The most common are this, miss, and sis. For a softer sound there are 40 near rhymes too, such as things, years, and which. The two example lines rhyme “kiss” with “miss” and “this”.
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.
My aunt's red lipstick, her loud cheek kiss:
of all the holidays, that's what I miss.
Braces clashing, our first clumsy kiss;
twenty years on, we're still laughing at this.
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