“road” has 25 perfect rhymes in this list, from 1 to 2 syllables. The most common are showed, code, and load. For a softer sound there are 40 near rhymes too, such as home, those, and told. The two example lines rhyme “road” with “load” and “slowed”.
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 crammed the car with one enormous load
and sang the whole way down the empty road.
Our mailman on the gravel, how he slowed
to wave at every neighbor on the road.
Lines written for this page. Use them as a starting point, not as a finished verse.
