Rhymes – Interesting Literature

29 of the Best Rhymes or Near-Rhymes for ‘Love’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)

Love is a common theme for poetry. Many poets have sought to describe the feeling of falling in love, being in love, loving someone you shouldn’t, or loving someone who doesn’t return that affection. Love is universal: it can be personal romantic love or even the love of all one’s fellow human beings.

So ‘love’ and ‘poetry’ are pretty much synonymous, in many ways. Yet the romantic poet faces a substantial hurdle when writing their love poem.

Words That Rhyme with the Word ‘World’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)

Poets often find themselves backed into a corner when writing more traditional rhyming poetry. They find they’ve ended a line with the unpromising word ‘orange’ and now have to try to find a word that rhymes with it, or else change the offending word for something more rhyme-friendly. But ‘world’ is a curious example: a common and useful word for a poet to use, but one without many ready and available rhyming words. After all, what words rhyme with ‘world’?