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
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answered by bruhaha 7
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