More Ways to Rhyme

One day last summer we were playing with cherries that still had their stalks on. Some of them were in pairs and we hung them over our ears, so I wrote in my notebook:

My best earring are ripe cherries 

Later I tried to find words to rhyme with cherries. The one I thought worked best was berries so I wrote the second line which says more about the cherry earrings: 

dangling, juicy, wine-red berries.

So putting them together I had:

My best earring are ripe cherries –

dangling, juicy, wine-red berries.

 A little rhyming poem like that is called a rhyming couplet. You could write a few and put them together to make a longer poem. Each couplet could have different rhyming words at the ends of the lines.

Here's a page from Hopscotch in the Sky which has two rhyming poems on it.…

Can you see that the poem called In the Background doesn't rhyme on every line and Shortest Summer Song rhymes twice in the one line!

You could have a go at rhyming like that. 

Here are some starters for you... for the first one just add a rhyme for fun (sun?). The second needs a rhyme for hot and so on. 

It's fun in the …

It's hot, not it's...

Can't you see? It's only...

It's bad when you're...

Red jelly in my...

There are no wrong answers and you can be as silly as you like. Then you could put your rhymes together to make longer poems. Just play about with them and have fun!

Do send them to me if you like using the message section on my contact page. I’d love to see them!