Perfect rhymes
Perfect rhymes repeat every sound from the stressed vowel to the end of the word.
1 syllable
- whole
- hole
- stole
- roll
- role
- goal
- bowl
- pole
- coal
- mole
- sole
- toll
- stroll
- troll
- scroll
- knoll
- droll
2 syllables
- control
- patrol
- parole
- enroll
“soul” has 21 perfect rhymes in this list, from 1 to 2 syllables. The most common are whole, hole, and stole. For a softer sound there are 40 near rhymes too, such as home, those, and told. The two example lines rhyme “soul” with “bowl” and “scroll”.
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.
You showed up with soup in a chipped blue bowl,
and it warmed my hands, my feet, my soul.
The phone light on my face, I scroll and scroll;
it's two a.m. and nothing feeds my soul.
Lines written for this page. Use them as a starting point, not as a finished verse.