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Words that rhyme withheroine

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 EH coda R
927
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
married10Mary4Paris5marry4wearing2parents4very2marriage3scary7buried5Sarahsheriffstaring3Jerry1ericlarrymerry2sara1Garybury2Karenterryterror6fairy1Aaron1parent2derekcarrie1sharing1error4cherry2narrow1era2Taravera2perrysparrow7blaring1caring1clarence1bearing1Erinscaring8erikmarrow2cheryltearing1berries2cherish2Pharaoh2sparrows1terre2cherries1peril2prairie2swearing1terrace2jared17gerald1bearings1beret1Bering1berry1beryl1carats1carey1daring1derry1fairies1ferry1garish1garret1gerry1heiress1kari1parrot1parrots1sheriffs1sheryl1terrors1wary1wearer1karaaarons1aerieaeriesaires
3 syllables
Bedouinarea1terrible2narrator1charity3character1embarrassed3therapy1terribly1jeremyterrorist2marrying4areas1terrorists1variouspreparingtherapist2primaryericaarrogant1marilynchariot2embarrassclarity3Meredithaerial2camaro1carrion1marriott1Maryland1burialalvero1apparent1arrogance1burials1canary1caramel1Cherokee1guerrero1herrera1janeiro1Kerouac1lariat1marion1marriages1mascara1merrily1newbury1parable1parenting1remarried1sombrero1strawberries1terrier1aberrantaberrantsaerials2AntaresArafatarielAzeribariumbariumsbaronessbaronetbaronetsbearable
4 syllables
America5american3necessary1apparently1military1secretary1americans1embarrassing3ordinary1experiment1cemetery4temporaryhilarious1january1experiments1february1scenarioiscariot1dictionary1hysteria1missionaries1posterity1prosperity2sincerity1legendaryBavaria1caricature1cemeteries1commissary1dictionaries1huckleberries1hysterical1hysterically1literary1missionary1monastery1
5 syllables
necessarilyunnecessarychemotherapy1contemporaries1contemporary1illusionary1momentarily1obituaries1
6 syllables
extraordinary1revolutionary
7 syllables
8 syllables
55
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
hair131Herrhare1
2 syllables
harry2haroldHarrisherring1hairyharemharemsharing1harriedharries2Harrodharrods
3 syllables
heroin2Harrison1heresy1harriet1heritage1Sahara1hairinessharrierharriers
4 syllables
inheritance1heritableheritages1inherited
5 syllables
inheritableinheritances1

“heroine” at line end — from real songs

Oh the heroine, ooh ooh the heroineHere's to the heroine, who transcends all the men
— Lou Reed, “The Heroine” · rhymes heroine / men

How to read the 927 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.

Assonance 927
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 55
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.