Приведённый ниже список не включает в себя всех слов, оканчивающихся похоже на первое в каждой строчке, но является набором наиболее используемых рифм, использующихся в стихах и песнях, особенно популярных.
I - my, high, try, buy, guy, goodbye, bye, lie, sigh, tie, by, cry, why, Y, fly, fry, pie, defy, deny, sky, eye, die
You – do, to, too, two, blue, true, knew, Sue, zoo, shoe, knew, queue, Ooh
Love – (think) of, off, dove, glove, enough, tough, rough
Day – say, may, lay, stay, way, away, pay, play, gray, OK, USA, hay, tray, anyway, sleigh, clay
Me – see, sea, tree, be, bee, free, tea, she, we, fee, tee, key, b, V, P, D, C, CD, ABC,
Smile – while, crocodile, vile, mile
Baby – maybe
Worry – hurry
Face – place, lace, pace, race, case,
Money – honey, bunny, funny
Sun – one, fun, run, gone, done, gun, nun
Night – tight, light, might, sight, fight, bright, right, alright, white, knight, bite, kite,
Girl – world
Boy- joy, toy, destroy
Guys – lies, eyes, dies
News- blues, shoes, confuse
House – mouse, louse
Nice – twice, ice, rice, mice, lice,
All – tall, call, small, tall, fall, mall, roll, ball, crawl
Up – cup,
Dance-chance, romance, France
Name – same, game, lame, came, fame,
Miss – kiss, bliss, this,
Walk- talk
In – begin, sin, skin, bin, pin,
Rain – pain, train, main, Spain, in vain, lane, campaign, champagne,
Man – can, again, fan, ran, ban, pan, Dan, Stan
Tale – tail, fail, nail, snail, jail, mail, male, ale, sale, sail
Stop – top, cop, pop, hop,
Believe – live, leave
Black – back, sack, lack, pack, attack
Yellow – fellow, marshmallow,
Shield - yield
Feeling – ceiling
Green – seen, been, between, Queen
Bird – heard
Quick - kick , stick, sick , tick, thick, Rick, Nick, Dick
Pants – ants
Luck- duck, suck, muck
Much – touch
Lunch- munch, crunch, punch
Alone – flown, own,
Look – book, crook, took, shook,
Around – sound, ground, down , town, clown, frown, crown, brown,
Friend – end, spend,
Rent – sent, tent,
Clover- over
Bake- take, rake, sake, brake, cake, make, snake
Heart – apart, part, tart, start, smart,
Star – are, car, far, bar,
Cat – that, fat, bat, rat, sat, pat,
Sad – bad, glad, dad, pad, mad,
Bed – red, said, led, bread, head, dead
Crazy – lazy
Hurt- desert
Song – long, along, wrong, ping-pong, King-Kong
Sing – ring, string, ling
Door – four, floor, more, poor, tore, bore, sore,
Five – hive, jive, alive, drive
Wife – life, knife,
Child – wild, mild,
Kind – find, wind
I’m – time, lime, rhyme,
Nation – ration, civilization, information, congratulation(s), etc
Seven- heaven
Eight – ate, mate, fate, rate, late, gate,
Fine – nine, mine, shine, line, wine, vine, sign, combine,
Good – could, mood, should, would,
Blood- flood, mud, God
Ear – hear, near, sincere, dear, deer
There – hair, share, bear, pear, care, square
Corn – unicorn, horn, born, scorn
Well – shell, hell, fell, bell, tell, sell, spell, swell
Net – bet, pet, let, debt,
Некоторые рифмы с именами собственными и географическими названиями.
Trotsky – plotsky, lotsky, shotsky, hotsky (это не официальные слова английского языка, - ski добавлено для «русскости»)
Brutus – Judas
Ceasar – geezer
Romanoff – stroganoff
Rasputin – machine, queen
Linkoln – thinking
Polk – folk
Siberia – fear ya, carry ya
Leningrad – dad
Katmandu – you, do,
Gustav – moost have
Gropius - copious
Aльтернатива для рифмы.
Некоторые слова используются в основном в поэзии для рифмы с другими словами, но в жизни употребляются редко:
Upsot (“Jingle Bells”) – вместо Upset
Siree - sir
Оригинальные рифмы от Тома Лерера:
There, the guy who's got religion'll.
Tell you if your sin's original.
And you may have thought it tragic
Not to mention other adjec-
Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do.
The tune don't have to be clever,
And it don't matter if you put a couple extra syllables into a line.
It sounds more ethnic if it ain't good English,
And it don't even gotta rhyme--excuse me--rhyne.
Надо отметить, что в песнях, где упоминается танец Бегин (beguin), рядом же стоит в той или иной форме и слово begin. А это песни "Begin the beguine", "Alma" , "Under ther Sea" и рифмовка из мультфильма "Yellow Submarine".
И помните – в стихотворении главное – душа!