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To rhyme or not to rhyme, if you choose to rhyme you must rhyme well for if you don't it will sound like . . . Well, you understand don't you?

From the Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce - RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull. Usually (and wickedly) spelled "rhyme."

When asked about English words without a rhyme, most will quite correctly say orange, purple and silver. There are actually many words in the English language lacking a partner in perfect rhyme.

If it's true rhyme you're looking for you may want to steer clear of the words . . . anything, January, stubborn, apricot, dictionary and xylophone. Good luck with chaos, angry, hostage, rhythm, shadow, circus, crayon and glimpsed. Angst and empty, depth and width will be tough to rhyme just like glimpsed and else and diamond and chocolate. Penguin and galaxy do not have any true rhymes, nor does elbow or engine or anxious. Monster is on the list too.

A perfect rhyme, sometimes referred to as true rhyme or full rhyme is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language as a rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants are different, for example, great, late; rider, beside her; dutiful, beautiful.

Pure rhyme can be broken down even further. Words such as dog and log are single pure rhymes. Silly and willy would hence be referred to as double pure rhymes. An example of a triple pure rhyme would be mystery and history.

The longer the word the harder it will be to find a perfect rhyme, this doesn't mean they cannot be used in the context of rhyme however. Para-rhymes are defined as a partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonance only, as in dry and died or grown and moon. This is also called half rhyme, near rhyme, oblique rhyme or slant rhyme. This refers to words that do not completely rhyme but use like sound to form the desired effect. A common example is the word discombobulate, to create a fluid sounding rhyme three syllable must be utilized. Populate would work well as a half rhyme in this instance. Hill and hell or mystery and mastery are examples of para-rhyme.

Masculine rhyme is among the most common; this technique stresses the final syllable of each word as in sublime and rhyme or went and sent. Feminine rhyme differs in that the stress is on the second to last syllable such as pleasure and treasure

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