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or fountain and mountain.
There are various other examples of rhyme; eye rhyme is a rhyme consisting of words, such as lint and pint or love and move with similar spellings but different sounds. Rich rhyme is a word rhymed with its homonym such as blue with blew, guest with guest. Scarce rhymes are words with limited rhyming alternatives like wisp and lisp, motionless and oceanless. Wrenched rhyme is the rhyming of a stressed syllable with an unstressed syllable as in words like lady and a bee or bent and firmament.

Assonance rhyme is the matching of the vowel sounds, feast and feed, fever and feature. Syllable rhyme, the last syllable in each word is matching, pitter and patter, batter and matter. Consonance rhyme is matching the consonants in each word, her and dark. Alliteration is matching the beginning sounds of each word, often used in a series, perfect, poetic perfection.

There is more to be told
but I've so much to do
so I shall stop here
and bid you adieu

Though not all words
have a perfect rhyme,
with a bit of thought
and a little time

you're certain to find
just the right one
and all your hard work
will be very well done

your words may be many
your words may be few
good luck in your quest
to find rhymes that are true

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck - John Dryden

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