Bunt a baseball
Hunt a rabbit
Punt a football
Runt of the litter
And when I hurple
My lips turn purple.
Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I have nothing to add. I just feel like I belong here.
donkey rhymes with zombie
lozenge rhymes with orange
Higgledy-piggledy,
Orange and purple were
Given as words that for
Poets are banes
Then six years later the
Thread unexpectedly
Rose like a zombie in
Search of fresh brains.
No, “donkey” rhymes with “zonkie”, and “lozenge” rhymes with “ozenge”. I’m not sure how you get that those words rhyme.
Depends on the accent I suppose but here [UK, South West] I would say:
Don - Key ===> Zom - Bee
Loz - En - Dj ===> Or - En - Dj
Just wanted to disprove the myth that nothing rhymes with orange.
Will stop now, poor thread needs some sleep.
Orange - Syringe
I was taught in school (all the way through 12th grade) that the sole requirement for words to rhyme was for them to have the last syllable pronounced the same. Thus, people and purple are rhymes. So are lozenge and orange.
‘Proper’ rhymes and ‘true’ rhymes are misleading phrases. A lot of words rhyme with everything suggested here, it’s just questionable whether they’re perfect rhymes.
Rhythm rhymes with smitham.
The final phoneme of ‘zombie’ and ‘donkey’ are the same (in my accent). So they rhyme. But they’re not perfect, obviously. For poetic/song lyric purposes though, nobody is going to argue whether they rhyme (A creative writing tutor at my uni liked to say ‘chime’ instead).
Since no-one else has done so yet, I just wanted to salute you for creating a fine specimen of a devilishly difficult verse form.
Bravo!
[I’ll admit that I’ve been trying, without success, to think of a single hexasyllabic word that you could have used to replace “Thread unexpectedly”.]
Apparently, a lot of you . . . including zombies . . . don’t know the meaning of the word “rhyme.”
Folks in the southwest UK pronounce a “k” sound the same as a “b” sound?
Modesty, schmodesty
Thank you Antoni’ B
Glad that my poetry’s
Given you kicks
Now the next day I see
“unnecessarily”
Could with a tweak or three
Fit on line six.
This thread was bumped by a spammer, who’s gone now, but I’m going to leave it open since y’all seem to be having a good time.
twickster, moderator
You should unban the spammer - he/she/it seems to be a good contributor at this point.
From far back in the mists of time:
“Sandwich” rhymes almost perfectly with “language” for me.
Gotchaya, gotchaya!
Fine poet Colophon
Might use a word from the
SDMB
Right at the page top there’s
“Australopithecus”
– Hexasyllabic and
Fits to a T!
There seems to be a lack of agreement in just what constitutes a “rhyme.” According to the definition at http://www.poeticbyway.com/gl-r.html#rhyme, a rhyme is
There are such things as near rhymes and half rhymes, but I’m pretty sure the OP was only concerned with perfect rhymes.