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Words that rhyme with sorrow — 210 rhymes by quality | Rhyme Land
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Words that rhyme withsorrow

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 AA coda R
8
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
borrow3aro1claromorrowyarrow
3 syllables
tomorrow20Pizarro
5 syllables
Kilimanjaro
22
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
marcocargocarlo1bardo1Fargo1Harlow1narco1arcoArgoArnoBarstowGarboHarpolargo
3 syllables
Ricardo1embargoescargotSuhartoSukarno
4 syllables
Leonardo
180
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
follow4also2swallow9bravo1hollow1Moscowpablo1autoottolotto4bronco2motto2wallow2balto1calo1condo1grotto1mambo1mano1Oslo1tonto1waldo1AaltoboffobongocapocombocongocrossbowdalogonzoguanohollohonchoHondollanolongbowmachomakooxbowPavoponcho
3 syllables
Chicago2bravado2morocco1Picasso1Apollo1cyrano1Dorado1Gestapo1legato1soprano1staccato1AlonsobonoboChicanogazpachogitanoguanacoIagoMankatomikadoMilanomulattoNaganorisottoTorontovibratoviragomario1barrio1aryan1atari1Guevara1
4 syllables
Colorado3desperado1antipastoavocadoeldoradoGallianoMarcianoMexicanoostinatoSantiagocalamaricalamariscaracaracaracarascarbonaracarbonaras
5 syllables
americano1napoletano1aficionadocategoricalcategorically
6 syllables
incommunicado
11
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)
2 syllables
sorry17sorrows3sarisarissorrowed36
3 syllables
Saarinensamsarasamsarassorrowfulsorrowing36commissar

“sorrow” at line end — from real songs

Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrowLet me forget about today until tomorrow
— Bob Dylan, “Mr. Tambourine Man” · rhymes sorrow / tomorrow
He said, "Give me your loss and your sorrow"If I show you the roses, will you follow?
— Nick Cave, “Where the Wild Roses Grow” · rhymes sorrow / follow
You steal things you ought to borrowI'd rather breathe than drown in sorrow
— Ray LaMontagne, “A Falling Through” · rhymes sorrow / borrow

How to read the 210 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 8
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Additive 22
Same vowel, but one word carries an extra consonant after the shared ending. The added sound softens the landing slightly.
Assonance 180
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 11
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.