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Words that rhyme withbuildings

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 IH coda L·D
11
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
shillings1Billings1clippingsdiggings1drippings3fillings1fittings3killings2pickingsriggings2schillings
33
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
earrings2siblings3trimmings2winnings1fixings3Hitchingsinningslistingslivings36lynchings
3 syllables
beginnings1misgivingswilderness1mathilda1matilda1bewildered1bewilder
4 syllables
bewildering1bewildermentbewilderments
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
build6dings1billed14
2 syllables
building12builder1builders1rebuild2
3 syllables
shipbuilding2homebuilderhomebuildersrebuilding2shipbuildershipbuildersshipbuildings2

“buildings” at line end — from real songs

There's a playground of children in the shadows of buildingsWhere the stained glass of crimson meets Ezekiel's visions
— Bright Eyes, “Persona Non Grata” · rhymes buildings / visions
Witnessin' killings, leavin' dead bodies in abandoned buildingsConstantly movin' while makin' millions
— Burt Bacharach, “Me Against the World” · rhymes buildings / millions
They would make your name singAnd bend through alleys and bounce off all the buildings
— Death Cab for Cutie, “Marching Bands of Manhattan” · rhymes buildings / sing

How to read the 44 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.

Subtractive 11
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 33
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.