How to Rhyme
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Everyone wants to write the perfect song or poem. Rhyming can help you achieve this goal. But, using rhyming well can be very difficult. Here are some steps to get you started on your quest to become a master rhymer:
Steps
- Figure out a rhyme scheme for your poem or song. You can rhyme words every other line, do pairs of lines, or anything else you want.
- Pick out the key words that you are trying to find rhymes for. These are usually words at the ends of lines. Make sure it follows your rhyme scheme.
- Change the prefix of that word to every letter in the alphabet. For example, if you needed to find a word that rhymes with, "fog," start at A and go "aog, bog, cog, dog, eog, ... zog," until you reach Z. Write down every word that is real, such as "bog," "cog," and "dog".
- Use other multiletter prefixes you know. First letters won't always cut it. For example, "frog" and "clog" are real words that rhyme with bog. Try multisyllablic words like "bullfrog" or "epilogue."
- Choose a word that works in your poem. If no word works, consider changing the key word to a synonym of that word. For example, you could substitute "mist" for "fog."
Tips
- Remember that poetry and songs are very similar. If you added music to a poem, it would become a song. Likewise, if you took away the tune of a song, you would have a poem.
- You can buy a rhyming dictionary at a book store that will greatly aid you with rhyming. Or, check out the website below.
- Don't rhyme just for the sake of rhyming - make sure it applies to the theme of the poem.
- Try to make your poem or song have meaning. Don't use lines such as, "I'm in love, I'm also wearing a glove." Instead "I'm in love, now I'm flying like a dove," would add greater meaning to the poem.
- Pay attention to the number of syllable in each line. You don't want to have lines where one has way more syllables than another.
- Ask friends and family for help.
- Take a poetry or song writing class.
- Try not to stress out if you can't get the words right. Poetry takes time and practice to master.
- Try not to make a word that has a rare ending, you will not find a rhyming word.
- When going through the alphabet, most letters can be followed with an R or an L to make another word. So if you were looking for a rhyme with cat, you could find bat as well as brat; fat, as well as flat and frat, etc.
Warnings
- Don't work on poems and songs for too long. Remember the other things that you like to do.
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