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Words that rhyme withforming

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 AO coda R·M
7
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
warming1swarming1norming2storming32
3 syllables
barnstormingbrainstormingheartwarming
9
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
morning3warning2mourning1corning1horning11scorning5
3 syllables
adorningforewarningshoehorning
31
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
boring3roaring2snoringpouring1flooring2warring2scoring1soaring1storing1whoring1coringdoringgoring
3 syllables
exploring1ignoring1abhorringadoringdeploringencoringimploringmentorringoutpouring
4 syllables
stevedoringunderscoring
105
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
boarding10forcingcourting2chording5cording2corkingcoursingdwarfing1fording3forgingforkingforting2gorginghoarding1horsinglording28morphing
3 syllables
according1recording3reporting1supporting4absorbing1abortingaffording7assortingawarding2cavortingclapboardingcomportingconcording
4 syllables
checkerboardingprerecordingreabsorbingreinforcingteleportingabnormally1paranormal1enormities
73
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
form15
2 syllables
former1formalforemanformalsformers1formicperform3informplatform1transform1conform1reform1waveform1deform
3 syllables
performance1performing1informal1informers1conformanceconforming1conformistconformistsdeformingformallyformative
4 syllables
deformity1chloroformingconformancesconformitiesconformitydeformities1formidableformidably
5 syllables

“forming” at line end — from real songs

I see our house on a hill on a clear blue morningWhen I am out walking, my eyes are still forming
— Bill Callahan, “Spring” · rhymes forming / morning
And the sign flashed out its warningIn the words that it was forming
— Paul Simon, “The Sound of Silence” · rhymes forming / warning
It's hard to get to sleep after performingWhen a star is born, the habit begins forming
— Cassandra Jenkins, “Understudies” · rhymes forming / performing

How to read the 152 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 7
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 9
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.
Subtractive 31
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 105
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 73
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.