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Rhymes

HarryCHHarryCH Shipmate
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Some English words allegedly have no rhymes. Some of these are debatable.

Is "pilfer" an adequate rhyme for "silver" or are we too fussy?

Aren't you glad you don't have to find a rhyme for "orange"? Do we measure an orange by the foot or inch?

If you lisp, do you rhyme "once" with "month"? Is there a good rhyme for "once" itself?

Think of a word with no rhyme or find a rhyme for something improbable.

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  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    edited March 16
    HarryCH wrote: »
    Some English words allegedly have no rhymes. Some of these are debatable.

    Is "pilfer" an adequate rhyme for "silver" or are we too fussy?

    Aren't you glad you don't have to find a rhyme for "orange"? Do we measure an orange by the foot or inch?

    If you lisp, do you rhyme "once" with "month"? Is there a good rhyme for "once" itself?

    Think of a word with no rhyme or find a rhyme for something improbable.

    Once?

    Sconce
    Bonce
    Ponce

    If you pronounce it with the vowel in "sun" rather than "gone", then there's still Dunce.

    Is there a rhyme for Fissure?
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Once and dunce rhyme where I live.

    Wolf?

  • HarryCHHarryCH Shipmate
    I like "once" and "dunce".

    How about "fisher" and "fissure"?

    How about "rival"? "Lemming"? "Vivid"?
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Rival and survival.

    Fisher and wisher.

    Lemming and Fleming.

    Vivid and livid.

  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    My brother and I carried the door,
    The door was painted orange.
    My brother carried the back hinge,
    And I carried the fore hinge.
  • questioningquestioning Shipmate
    NicoleMR wrote: »
    My brother and I carried the door,
    The door was painted orange.
    My brother carried the back hinge,
    And I carried the fore hinge.

    brilliant!
  • NicoleMRNicoleMR Shipmate
    Thank you. I claim no credit, my father told me that a long time ago, Where he heard it I do not know.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    NicoleMR wrote: »
    My brother and I carried the door,
    The door was painted orange.
    My brother carried the back hinge,
    And I carried the fore hinge.

    Fore doesn't rhyme with the or of Orange around here.
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    edited March 17
    A rhyme I heard many years ago:

    There are no rhymes for orange or rhythm
    When writing poetry don't bother with 'em.
  • quetzalcoatlquetzalcoatl Shipmate
    Hopkins was famous for his strange rhymes. One of the oddest is "communion" with "a boon he on/ my late being there ..." (The Bugler's First Communion). He also uses broken rhymes, e.g., "king/dom of daylight's dauphin", where "king" rhymes with later words, (Windhover).
  • PriscillaPriscilla Shipmate
    “Orange “is ok if the poem is about South Wales as it rhymes with Blorenge, a mountain just outside Abergavenny.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    I'm pretty well sure
    There's a rhyme for fissure.
    I'll ask my friend Gorringe
    If there's a rhyme for orange.
  • jrwjrw Shipmate
    My favourite rhyme is from the song Eddie Don't Like Furniture by poet/songwriter John Hegley

    Eddie don't like furniture
    If you give him some for Christmas
    he'll return it ya.
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    I've just come across a new (to me) word: 'Tranklement'. A splendid word! And I then wondered, "what rhymes with it?"
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    Apropos, 'Tranklement', the best (or least worst) I've been able to come up with is:

    'If the articles of your tranklement
    Were all atomic particles,
    It is a fact -
    If they interact,
    They would show
    Entanglement.

    Sorry
  • Barnabas_AusBarnabas_Aus Shipmate
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    I've just come across a new (to me) word: 'Tranklement'. A splendid word! And I then wondered, "what rhymes with it?"

    Commonly-used by my Yorkshire-born wife and her family, and has even slipped into my conversation along with some older Australian idioms. Can't do better than RR's rhyme.
  • SparrowSparrow Shipmate
    I know Tracklement but not Tranklement. What is it?
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    edited March 26
    Sparrow wrote: »
    I know Tracklement but not Tranklement. What is it?

    It is a collection of odds and ends. To quote, " Tranklements is a beautiful Black Country word which means trinkets or bits and bobs."

    It was new to me - my editor discovered it and just had to share! In retrospect, I realise I should have used the plural, not sure if it is used as a singular.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Not bits and boobs?
  • The5thMaryThe5thMary Shipmate
    Bits and boobs sound better! I'll keep abreast of where this discussion is going.

    I'll see myself out...
  • HarryCHHarryCH Shipmate
    I think "bits" and "boobs" have rhymes.
  • BelisariusBelisarius Admin Emeritus
    In a Gilbert-and-Sullivan parody I wrote, I inner-rhymed "lemon tree" with "clemency". :smile:
  • HarryCHHarryCH Shipmate
    Brilliant!
  • The_RivThe_Riv Shipmate
    What about "poetry?"
  • HarryCHHarryCH Shipmate
    In India, as I wrote poetry, I was pleased to see a Goa Tree.
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