First, a tiny bit of advice. If this is for a poem, esp. it you need a PERFECT rhyme, you might try to rework the line to find something easier to rhyme. (In fact, it is generally a good idea even if you have a very 'rhymable' word, to try a variety of phrasings that call for different rhymes... never know what you might come up with.)
How you try to rhyme it depends in part on which pronunciation you follow. There are two issues here
1) is it two syllables or three?
2) is the first syllable pronounced to rhyme with "lock" or with "hawk"
So you could have CHOCK-lit, CHOCK-uh-lit, CHAWK-lit, CHAWK-uh-lit
(The vowel sounds are not precisely represented here, but you probably know what I mean -- a dictionary will give better detail.)
For now I'm going to assume to TWO-syllable pronunciation... not only because it's the one I use (and, I believe, most American English dialects), but because it's a bit easier to come up with rhymes for. (It's also easier not to try to juggle ALL the pronunciations at once!)
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Now, if you want a PERFECT rhyme, then all the sounds from the accented vowel of "OC" to the end must match exactly.
In that case, the only match might be "bockelet" (That is, IF you pronounce it "CHOCK-lit". Problem for me is, I pronounce it "CHAWK-lit"!) I somehow suspect that won't be very useful for you if you're trying to use this info to right a poem!
Another possiblity is to COIN a word. This is not always a great idea, but in this case "-let" is a familiar suffix that is still actively used to form new words. So you could try any word that rhymed with "lock" and add "-let" to refer to a SMALL one. If this is LIGHT verse, it might well work.
blocklet, docklet, locklet, rocklet, socklet, stocklet, bocklet, chalklet, flocklet, jocklet, shocklet
OR, pronounced with the "aw" sound -
hawklet, squaklet
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What you probably want --and what usually works quite well in poems-- is a "near rhyme", where MOST of the sounds from "OC" on match. In particular, you generally want to try to match ALL the vowels ("full assonance") and the final consonant ("final consonance"). The consonants in the middle are not quit as important, though the closer you can come to matching them, the better.
So you can try
A) words or expressions ending with '-let', that don't have the K sound just before it. (Again, you may be able to coin words.) Note that the sounds /p/ and /t/ make the best substitutes (partly because, like the k-sound, they do not use the voice):
droplet, shoplet
clotlet, knotlet, yachtlet, dotlet, spotlet
goblet
for the "AW" sound
gauntlet
B) words, expressions ending with "-et" (You might be able to coin some words with an -et suffix too.)
with K-sound:
docket, pocket, rocket, socket
two-word expressions (not quite as close, because the accent-pattern and the final vowel are slightly different):
block it, clock it, dock it, knock it, mock it, sock it, stock it
talk it, walk it, stalk it, hawk it, caulk it
without k-sound:
moppet
drop it, stop it, chop it, crop it. top it, pop it, mop it, plop it
got it, forgot it, swat it, dot it, plot it, knot it
bought it, caught it, fought it, wrought it
2007-03-27 11:38:30
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answered by bruhaha 7
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There are no perfect rimes for [chocolate] in English, but in a serious poem you could get close enough with [oculate], [inoculate], [flocculate], and - at a push - ocelot. In a comic poem you might rime on talk a lot, walk a lot, porker lot (a swine market), hawker lot (a carpark frequented by dodgy salesmen). A wiser course of action would be move chocolate to elsewhere in the line, where you won't need to rime on it. Or even to write a poem about something less biased toward cliché.
2016-03-26 20:54:24
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answered by Anonymous
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When rhyming multi-syllable words, just try to think of words that rhyme with the last syllable--e.g. bait, Kate, date, fate, gate, hate, mate, Nate, pate, rate, sate, and wait.
2007-03-24 09:12:04
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answered by Lillian L 5
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