4.6 Writing Rhyming Poems

How To Write A Rhyming Poem - Prewriting 2

Brainstorm and Organize Ideas:

For your two possible topic ideas, brainstorm some words related to your topic and then list rhyming words for each word. For example, if my topic is pizza, some related words are pepperoni, cheese, sauce, gooey, whiff, and dough. Here are some rhyming possibilities: 

cheese - please, wheeze, sneeze, squeaze, tease, antifreeze, guarantees, heart disease, trapeze

cheesy - easy, breezy, queasy, sneezy

sauce - boss, cross, loss, toss

pepperoni - bony, phony, bolonga (pronounced baloney), macaroni, testimony

gooey - chewy, kaplooey, chewy

whiff - sniff, petroglyph, stiff

dough - blow, flow, bestow, aglow, chateau, outgrow, rainbow, van gogh, trudeau

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