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15 Websites to Help You With Rhyming Words

November 10, 2015 by Kenney Myers

rhymeRhyming words are fun, but some words will leave you tongue-tied trying to find a suitable partner. Anyone who has ever dabbled in poetry will tell you that meter is a refined art that requires the poet to have a comprehensive understanding of how the rhythmic structure of words, sentences and verses ebb and flow. A rookie mistake when dealing with rhyming words is assuming that every word has to be an exact match. A close match is often sufficient to convince the ear that it rhymes without breaking the rhythm of the verse of rhyme. These 15 websites are designed specifically to help you find rhyming words, synonyms and other forms of creative word play.

  1. Rhyme Zone – It’s very frustrating to discover that a word does not have an exact rhyme. However, with Rhyme Zone, you may just find the next best thing. The website’s search engine will look for an exact match, but if it doesn’t find one it will return a list of similar sounding words. You can define your search in a number of ways, including near rhymes, similar sounding words or related words. For more relevant listings, you can also organize the search results by both number of syllables and letters.
  2. Rhymer – As well as providing a powerful rhyming search engine, Rhymer is full of great tips and instructions on constructing rhymes. The website returns results based on rhyming syllables. This is particularly useful if you are a poet, as it allows you to construct verses that flow naturally without stretching to make the words match the meter.
  3. Rhyme Brain – This is a multi-lingual rhyming site that includes French, German, English and Spanish, among other languages. The interface couldn’t be simpler to use; you type the word you wish to rhyme into the search bar and the results are posted in tables on the same page. Rhyme Brain also has an extensive blog on rhyming words and alliteration that you can spend hours browsing through.
  4. Enchanted Learning – Finding rhymes the easy way is one thing; learning to use them on your own is quite another. Enchanted Learning provides endless hours of fun with rhyming games and activities. There is a $20 per year subscription charge, which gives you full access to all the downloadable content from the site. However, there is also a large amount of content that is free of charge and doesn’t require a subscription.
  5. Reggie Loves to Rhyme – This site from Scholastic is a fully interactive site for children, with games and activities that use colors, pictures and sounds to help build rhyming knowledge and skills. Scholastic is an international company that delivers educational material to children in over 150 countries.
  6. WikiRhymer – In keeping with other Wiki-sites, this rhyming search engine is community based. The interface has a number of search parameters to choose from, and there is also a discussion forum where you can ask questions if you’re having trouble with a particular word. This provides a very beneficial platform for poets and song-writers to share ideas.
  7. PBS Kids Rhyming Games – PBS have brought together all their much-loved characters to create a fully interactive site full of rhyming games. Sesame Street, Bingo and others are on hand to make rhyming fun for kids and adults alike.
  8. Word Central – Merriam-Webster are the developers of Word Central, so you shouldn’t be at all surprised to find that the site has a huge database of rhyming words. What’s more, at Word Central you can create your own dictionary along with word definitions. So if you can’t find a word that rhymes the way you’d like, you can just invent one instead!
  9. Find Rhymes – This site adds a new element to rhyme searching by adding phonemes into the mix. Phonemes are the distinct sounds in a specified language that distinguish one word from another.
  10. Rhymes & Chimes – As well as providing rhyming words, Rhymes and Chimes has search parameters for translations, phrases, quotes and related products. Results are also broken down by number of syllables in ascending order from one up to five.
  11. Reading Rockets – This educational site will take you all the way from the basics to the comprehensive elements of rhyming and word play. There’s also a selection of printable material available on Reading Rockets, as well as games and activities you can use on the site.
  12. Your Dictionary – Create your own worksheets and browse through lists of rhyming activities in Your Dictionary’s huge archives. The site is extremely well organized, making it easy to navigate and find what you need with minimal hassle.
  13. Rhyme Bot – This clever bot returns a wealth of information from a single search. By default, Rhyme Bot is tailored towards kids; however, you can also switch to advanced search for more complicated results.
  14. Kids Front – The questions and answers structure of Kids Front is a progressive way of learning rhyming structures.  Although the site is obviously aimed at teaching kids, the exercises are suitable for adults, too.
  15. What rhymes with? – There is nothing complicated or flashy about this site; you simply type a word into the search engine and it finds you rhyming words. However, the results are returned in an easy to read format and each word links to its own related words.

Filed Under: Article, Poetry

A Father’s Pact

October 4, 2015 by Kenney Myers

ashley

I never really understood what it meant to have someone
completely dependent upon you for all their needs.
To have someone that you ache for when they fail and
will do almost anything to see that they succeed.

I guess I always took for granted how this had worked
in my own life from my parents to my very supportive wife.
I have always been fortunate to have someone there for me
for all the ups and downs through each victory and strife.

Well all this changed when I held my child for the first time.
When I looked into her eyes it was astonighing to see.
She wasn’t scared, no that wasn’t it at all.  She was looking
with love as if to say I need you to always be there for me.

It seems we developed a pact from the very first time we met.
This contract is permanent and comes with no strings attached.
Because whatever my child needs, she can always count on one thing.
The lengths I’ll go through to help her will never be matched.

-KLM#1 06/16/2013

Filed Under: Poetry

I Wish I Had

October 2, 2015 by Kenney Myers

wish

I wish I had known
I wish I had tried
I wish I had grown
I wish I had cried
I wish I had seen
I wish I had peeked
I wish I had gleaned
I wish I had reached
I wish I had arms
I wish I had tears
I wish I had alarms
I wish I had years
I wish I had ears
I wish I had heard
I wish I had fears
I wish I had words
I wish I had called
I wish I had read
I wish I had stalled
I wish I had fed
I wish I had more
I wish I had less
I wish I had stored
I wish I had professed
I wish I had given
I wish I had goodbye
I wish you were livin’
Why did you have to die?

-KLM

What are you wishing for? Maybe today is the day to act on that wish.

Dedicated to our friends in the Angeli family 05/21/2015 http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Reports-HPD-officer-found-dead-inside-car-6276964.php

Filed Under: Article, Christianity, Poetry

What in the World is a #Twacronym

September 14, 2015 by Kenney Myers

twacronymAs you know by now, I really enjoy Twitter (@KenneyMyers) and see it as an interesting platform to explore different ways of communicating.  Ideally, I attempt to communicate some message that has a meaning whether it is hidden or overt.  Of course, I almost always have multiple meanings behind the prose I write which I think is fairly common.  In addition, the beautiful thing about written words is that the people that read them also can get completely different meanings out of what you are saying.  Okay, so back to the meaning of #twacronym…  These are simply acronyms that I plan to release exclusively on twitter.

For example, the first one I did is HOLIDAYS – Help Others Love In Different And Youthful Spirits.  Unlike with #twalliteration which honestly takes tons of time to pull off properly.  #Twacronyms are really simple.  All you have to do is capitalize the word that is the basis for the tweet, add a dash, and then one word for each letter in the base word (be sure to capitalize the first letter of each of those words).  Finally, please use the #twacronym hashtag on each one you publish.  That’s all you have to do!

It’s my hope that people will see the #twacronym each day and offer suggestions for other meanings of the base word.  That may or may not happen and retweeting is also certainly a great way to support a #twacronym too.  Most importantly, I hope that people will use this as yet another way to show their creativity to their followers.  So let’s have some fun and start using #twacronym together!

 

Filed Under: Article, Catch All, Poetry

Family Road Trip Crushing

September 5, 2015 by Kenney Myers

suv

Packing up the SUV
Heading out on the road
With a family of five
It’s quite the carload

Mom packs and Dad loads
Big bags first of course
He crams it all in and
Shuts the door with force

Mom grades Dad on his work
It’s never better than a C
Because the way Dad loads
The driver can never see

As we are pulling out
We notice there is no gas
So we hit the local station
and then on the road at last

The kids load up a movie
In the built-in DVR
Then play with their iPads
As they prepare to go far

Before too long Dad can see
Everyone is silent, he is alone
As each and every one of them
Now has on their head phones

Family road trips nowadays
Fly by with relative ease
Because with games like
Candy Crush it’s a breeze
Send us all a life please???

Filed Under: Article, Poetry

Fishing Lessons with Dad

August 30, 2015 by Kenney Myers

fishing

I remember it vividly
The first time I went fishing
It was on a small Iowa lake
And the water was gently swishing
It was dark water,  you know
The kind you only see in a pond
It was early in the morning
I was too excited to yawn
I couldn’t wait to get started
To have my pole in my hands
I immediately pressed the button
And the line fell swiftly on land
My dad quickly wound it back up
And told me everything was okay
He showed incredible patience
As he taught me that day
We covered all of the basics
Like how to hook a worm
As I focused on just how much
It would wiggle and squirm
He then taught me how to cast
As we held the pole together
I didn’t realize it then
But now it’s a moment I treasure
We practiced reeling a few times
Before settling on the ground
As we watched the line and waited
I learned not to make a sound
To this day I have no idea
Whether or not we caught a fish
But spending time with my Dad
Is something I’ll always cherish.

Filed Under: Poetry

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