Perfect rhymes
Perfect rhymes repeat every sound from the stressed vowel to the end of the word.
2 syllables
- ahead
- instead
- widespread
- misled
- behead
- unsaid
- unwed
3 syllables
- overhead
- infrared
- thoroughbred
“red” has 29 perfect rhymes in this list, from 1 to 3 syllables. The most common are said, dead, and head. For a softer sound there are 40 near rhymes too, such as left, else, and next. The two example lines rhyme “red” with “dead” and “thread”.
It rhymes with the same words as head and bed.
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.
The garden's quiet, every leaf is dead,
except the one tomato, round and red.
Grandma's sewing box: a spool of thread,
a thimble, and her reading glasses, red.
Lines written for this page. Use them as a starting point, not as a finished verse.