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Words that rhyme withtaxes

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 AE coda K·S
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 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
saxes1waxes1faxesflaxesmaxes3paxes
3 syllables
boraxesearwaxesgalaxesrelaxes6
4 syllables
parallaxes1
5
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
lapses1matzohs
3 syllables
collapseselapsesrelapses
84
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
glasses7ashes7passes4matches1classes1asses6masses2badges2crashes2hatches1patches1flashes1gashes1latches1bashesbasses4batchesbrasses3
3 syllables
molasses2sunglasses3eyelashes1abashesAgassizalpacasamassesattachesbacklashesbypassescrevassesdetachesdispatcheseyeglasses
4 syllables
overpasses1balderdasheshourglasses2razzmatazzes
125
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
chances6branches4dances2stanzas1almas1alphasannas1aquasArasasthmasbabkasblanchescallascasbahsdahliasflangesgambasgammas
3 syllables
advances1bananas1cabanas1alfalfasamandasbandanas1bonanzascampanascanastasdulcianasenhancesexpansesfinances2
4 syllables
circumstances2avalanches1cleopatras1docudramashappenstances
5 syllables
allegiances1abracadabras2americanasextravaganzas
27
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
tax2tacks1
2 syllables
taxi2taxis1taxertaxerstaxied2taxing2attacks1syntax1
3 syllables
syntaxes1surtaxessurtaxingtaxabletaxablestaxiing2
4 syllables
ataxiaataxiasnontaxableovertaxes

“taxes” at line end — from real songs

First it wanes and then it waxes(So procreate and pay your taxes)
— Andrew Bird, “Tenuousness” · rhymes taxes / waxes
You're the Tower of BabelYou're a dress from Saks's, you're next year's taxes,'
— Cole Porter, “You’re the Top” · rhymes taxes / babel
Why in school they didn’t teach about the taxes?All about TV and living above average
— Elliott Smith, “The Worlds Ending” · rhymes taxes / average

How to read the 225 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 11
Same stressed vowel, same sounds after it, different beginning. Full resolution — the strongest closure a rhyme can give a line.
Family rhyme 5
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 84
Same vowel, but one word stops a consonant early. A slightly clipped, softer resolution than perfect rhyme.
Assonance 125
Only the stressed vowel matches; the consonants after it are unrelated. Loose and open — useful when a section should stay unresolved.
Identity 27
The whole stressed syllable repeats, beginning included. That's repetition, not rhyme — the line echoes instead of resolving.