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Words that rhyme withbroken

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 OW coda K
5
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
spoken6woken1token
3 syllables
unspoken3outspoken
15
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
Loganslogan1rogan1broganshogunopen7WotanOdin1RodinTobin
3 syllables
Capotenreopenverboten
4 syllables
Minnesotanhemoglobin
11
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
golden4boatman1coltrane1Goldman1Goldwynholdenmoltenoldenpostmanspokesman
3 syllables
embolden
7
What it is
  1. The syllables' vowel sounds are identical.
  2. The sounds after the vowels are identical, but one side stops one consonant earlier.
  3. The syllables begin differently.
How it feels
  1. Perfect
  2. Family
  3. Additive / Subtractive
  4. Assonance
  5. Consonance
resolvedunresolved
Example

cried / cry — one side missing the final D

Source
Berklee College of Music's songwriting method (Pat Pattison)
2 syllables
Owen2cohen3rowan
3 syllables
minoansamoan
4 syllables
Ohioanprotozoan
159
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
ocean2motion13stolen1frozen5chosen1no-oneromancolinlovin2notion7potion2lotion1brolin1swollen1trojan1woven1bowmanBozemancoachmancochinCohancolonGolanJolsonnolanomenshowmansolansolonyeomanfocus8smoking8local1joking1poker5focused1choking1loco4pocus2joker1loca1locusts2stoker1coco1
3 syllables
explosion3emotion1promotion1devotion10commotion1implosion1abdomenambrosiancorrosiondemotionEindhovenerosionhandwovenlaotianunfrozenrococo2kyoko1nokia1sunoco1backstrokingconvokingevokingfocuses8focusing8invokingjokinglylocallynonsmokernonsmokersprovokingrefocusrefocusedrelocate
4 syllables
locomotion1serotonin1greco-romanibuprofeninterwovenmacedonianmelatoninOklahomanoxytocinmediocre2karaoke1cariocacariocasfinocchiofinocchiosFukuokakaraokes1Orinocooutspokennessparochialrefocusesrefocusingrelocated
14
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
broke25
2 syllables
brokens1broker1brokered1brokers1broking
3 syllables
unbroken2heartbroken1brokeragebrokering1housebrokenstockbrokerstockbrokers
4 syllables
brokerages

“broken” at line end — from real songs

But he himself was brokenLong before the sky would open
— Leonard Cohen, “Suzanne” · rhymes broken / open
Their names are never spokenThe curse is never broken
— Arcade Fire, “Black Mirror” · rhymes broken / spoken
You won't be happy 'til the bottle's brokenYou kept back, you kept unspoken
— Elliott Smith, “Baby Britain” · rhymes broken / unspoken

How to read the 197 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 5
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 15
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 11
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Subtractive 7
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 159
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 14
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.