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Words that rhyme withbodies

feminine
Masculine

Ends on a stressed syllable — a one-syllable rhyme, or a multisyllable word whose primary stress lands last. The rhyme hits the final beat, the way most rhymes in songs do.

Examples

love · dove · today · believe · forgot

Feminine this word

Ends with an unstressed syllable trailing the stressed one — always at least two syllables. The rhyme lands a beat earlier and trails off softly.

Examples

river · mother · follow · breaking · mountain

Masculine and feminine endings rarely sing together (the rhyme lands on a different beat), so they're kept apart here.

 vowel AA coda D
3
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are identical.
  2. The sounds after the vowels (if any) are identical.
  3. The syllables begin differently.
How it feels
  1. Perfect
  2. Family
  3. Additive / Subtractive
  4. Assonance
  5. Consonance
resolvedunresolved
Example

cat / hat — same AE vowel, same T ending

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
2 syllables
gaudiessaudisshoddies
25
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are identical.
  2. The sounds after the vowels come from the same phonetic family (e.g. T↔D, P↔B, M↔N).
  3. The syllables begin differently.
How it feels
  1. Perfect
  2. Family
  3. Additive / Subtractive
  4. Assonance
  5. Consonance
resolvedunresolved
Example

cat / pad — AE vowel; T and D are both stops

Family chart
PlosivesFricativesNasals
VoicedbdgvTHzzhjmnng
Unvoicedptkfthsshch

Each column is a family pair — same place + manner, only the voicing differs.

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
2 syllables
pottieszlotieszlotyshobbies1bobbies4doggies1Hobbeslobbies1nagisyagiscopies4Rockies1talkies1
3 syllables
karates2kohlrabisjalopies1
4 syllables
literatisphotocopiessukiyakisteriyakis
30
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are identical.
  2. The sounds after the vowels are identical, with one extra consonant on one side.
  3. The syllables begin differently.
How it feels
  1. Perfect
  2. Family
  3. Additive / Subtractive
  4. Assonance
  5. Consonance
resolvedunresolved
Example

love / loved — extra D on one side

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
2 syllables
parties4nazis1zombies1artesbarbiesChartrescockneyscopleysdonkeys1doxies
3 syllables
autopsiesepoxieshierarchies1malarkeys
4 syllables
diamantesgaribaldismatriarchiesoligarchiesorthodoxies
5 syllables
heterodoxies
243
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are the same.
  2. The consonants after the vowel are not phonetically related.
  3. The syllables begin differently.
How it feels
  1. Perfect
  2. Family
  3. Additive / Subtractive
  4. Assonance
  5. Consonance
resolvedunresolved
Example

love / dot — both AH, but V and T have nothing in common

Assonance rhymes always have consonants after the vowels, but the consonants cannot be phonetically related.

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
2 syllables
armies2balis1barisbarleys2barneys1brolliescoffees8colliescommiesdanisdollies1folliesglossieshollies1jollieslolliesmalismarlysmollies1mommies2palsiesparleysparsleys1possesranissalmissarisswamistoffeestrolleys
3 syllables
bengalisbialieshibachisloblolliespastramissafarissalamissomalistamalestsunamisaudience1claudiabravado2odyssey1applauded1audibles1Dorado1downtrodden1moderate1moderates1Nevada1postmodern1prodigy1
4 syllables
ashkenaziscalamarisdemagogieskamikazesmariachismelancholies1inaudibleColorado3desperado1enchilada2enchiladas2commodity1
5 syllables
azerbaijanismulligatawniesaficionado
6 syllables
29
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are identical.
  2. The sounds after the vowels (if any) are identical.
  3. The syllables begin the same — repetition, not a rhyme.
How it feels

Off the rhyme scale — identity is repetition, not resolution. Shown so you can spot it, not reach for it.

Example

fuse / confuse — both stressed syllables are 'fuse'

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
1 syllable
baudbawd
2 syllables
body32bawdiesbawdybodicebodied
3 syllables
somebody6nobody5bodicesbodilybodying32embodiedembodiesembody
4 syllables
everybody6able-bodiedantibodiesantibodydisembodied
5 syllables

“bodies” at line end — from real songs

Slipping away from the partyEveryone gone from their bodies
— Adrianne Lenker, “Capacity” · rhymes bodies / party
Spend their lives resenting their fathersSome girls hate their bodies
— Arcade Fire, “Creature Comfort” · rhymes bodies / fathers
The police had found two bodiesTheir faces had been horribly disfigured by some sharp object
— John Prine, “Lake Marie” · rhymes bodies / object

How to read the 301 results

Tiers follow Pat Pattison's stability scale — pick the resolution your line needs, not just the closest sound. Bold words are common in lyrics; a struck-through word with a cliché flag is an overworked pair; a vermilion dot counts how often the pair appears at line end in our corpus of real songs.

Perfect rhyme 3
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 25
The consonants after the vowel are swapped for phonetic siblings — T↔D, M↔N, S↔Z. Nearly as stable as perfect rhyme, with far more word choices.
Additive 30
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Assonance 243
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 29
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.