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Words that rhyme with infirmary — 106 rhymes by quality | Rhyme Land
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Words that rhyme withinfirmary

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 ER coda M
106
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
german1germans1Hermes1sermon1vermin1Hermanermined1hermit1murmurs1Sherman1skirmish1squirming1thermals1thermos1BurmadermadermaldermasdermisermineerminesHermannhermanns
3 syllables
surgery2mercury4nursery1perjury1burglarycursorytertiaryGermany4determined1permanent1determinemurmuring1terminal2permanence1determentdetermentsdetermines
4 syllables
determinantdeterminantsdeterminingdeterministdeterministsdiathermiesdiathermyendothermic
5 syllables
anniversary3neurosurgerydeterminabledeterminedly
23
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
firm
2 syllables
Murrayfermifermisfirmingconfirm1affirminfirm
3 syllables
deferment1affirmingconfirming1deferments1reaffirmreconfirm
4 syllables
affirmative1affirmatives1confirmableinfirmaries2infirmities
5 syllables
affirmatively

“infirmary” at line end — from real songs

I save my song for eternityOf the window at St. James infirmary
— Gillian Welch, “Pilgrim (You Can’t Go Home)” · rhymes infirmary / eternity
I went down, to St James InfirmaryLet her go, let her go, God bless her
— Joe Henry, “St. James Infirmary” · rhymes infirmary / her

How to read the 106 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 106
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 23
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.