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2007-01-29 13:30:45 · 15 answers · asked by Brittni 2 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

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What will work depends partly on what you want.

If you want a PERFECT rhyme, then ALL the sounds from the vowel of the accented syllable to the end of the word must match EXACTLY (including the accent pattern). In this case, that means it must end with the sound /-ellybeans/. In other words, something like "belly jeans" will NOT qualify, but "deli beans" or "smelly beans" would (see the beginning of list "A" below).

Defiinition of "perfect rhyme:
http://www.bartleby.com/61/83/P0188300.html

But you probably will be fine with a "NEAR rhyme" in which MOST of the sounds match, or very nearly match (again, with any accents on the same syllables). Usually, for the BEST near rhymes you want to:
1) match ALL the vowels or at least come extremely close (called "full assonance")
2) use perfect or near-perfect matches of the consonant or consonant-cluster at the END of the word ("final assonance") = the 'nz' sound here
3) (not as critical) - have fairly close matches for any other consonants (example: the /d/-sound is closer to the /l/than an /s/ sound would be)

As you probably notice, there is no ONE-word rhyme for "jellybeans". All of them must be two word expressions. So what you would do is take a word from "A" followed by a word from "B" in the lists below... of course, choosing a combination that makes sense!

(A) first word ending with "-elly" sound

belly, deli, felly, jelly, kelly, nelly, shelly, smelly, telly, welly

OR with the same vowels, but a different consonant (or combination of consonants) in the middle:

CLOSEST =eddy, teddy, bready, heady, ready, steady, thready, petty, sweaty

(OR names like Eddy, Freddie, Teddy, Betty -- useful if the "B"-word is a verb)

any, many, eggy, edgy, veggie,heavy, every(? may be hard to find an A-word), semi-

Possibly, a short i instead of the short e will work. Thus, you might try:
* filly, hilly lily, silly


(B) For the second word:

You'll have the best luck with nouns:
* beans, deans, denes, fiends (the d is hardly pronounced), genes, greens, jeans, means, queans, queens, scenes, sheens, skeens, spleens, teens, treens

Note /m/ is very close to /n/ and works well as a subsitute:
* beams, creams, dreams, reams, seams, streams

Then there are verbs
* cleans, gleans, leans, speans, weans, yeans, keens, peens, preens, weens, wheens

Or, with /m/:
* seems, deems, steams

Note too that you may be able to get away with dropping one part of the final consonant-cluster, whether the final -s (sounds like /z/), or the n. So you could try: bees, ease, fees, etc. Thus "kelly green" and "smelly knees" might work.

Actually, the only way to be sure how well the rhyme will work for YOUR purposes is to test it in the line you'll be using it in. Rhymes which are acceptable in one case may not be in another. (Example - limericks and other comic verse often allow a lot more leaway)

Finally, if you're working on a poem, do consider rephrasing the line to allow other possibilites. This might be as simple as phrasing the line to use the singular form "jellybean" or finding a way to put a word at the end of the line which provides more possibilities for rhymes (and ones that say what you are trying to say at that point!)

2007-02-01 04:07:04 · answer #1 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 0 0

Smelly Teens

Good Luck
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2007-01-29 13:45:47 · answer #2 · answered by Shannon at Womens Health Network 2 · 0 0

Blue Jeans

2007-01-29 14:05:50 · answer #3 · answered by D192 2 · 0 1

i see your little jelly beans pokin out your dirty jeans
i'd like to ream you in the beam, i mean your bum
but first i'd be drunk on some rum, keep on drinkin till my lips go numb
on my way home i kill a bum, but it's cool because im a nun
dont be stunned or you gonna get yo-self gunned down
get a beat down, then when its all said and done then i get a crown

because im king, gimme mah ring
because im king

2007-01-29 13:48:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 3

Deli queens

2007-01-29 13:34:39 · answer #5 · answered by Cynthia D 5 · 0 0

Movie screens, movie scenes, shirt seams, crossbeams, smelly teens, refreshing steams, healthy dreams, dog preens, hairy fiends

...just to name a few

2007-01-29 14:05:38 · answer #6 · answered by Nick J 2 · 0 1

belly queens

belly jeans

2007-01-29 13:43:54 · answer #7 · answered by blondielovesbasketball 1 · 0 0

Drag queens
College deans

2007-01-29 13:49:05 · answer #8 · answered by iraq51 7 · 0 1

Jelly Babies.

2016-03-29 09:04:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

smelly jeans

2007-01-29 13:38:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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