First, a warning about the listings at rhymezone.com and similar sites. It's rhyme lists frequently include many personal names, often rare ones. These are unlikely to be very useful to poets. (Notice also that they may include numerous compounds with the same final part -- master, taskmaster, spymaster ... (maybe 30 more!). This may or may not be useful for you.)
PERFECT rhymes would have to end with the sound /after/, that is, EXACTLY matching every sound (and accent) from the vowel of the accented syllable to the end
after, crafter dafter, drafter, grafter, hafter [obsolete!], rafter, hereafter, thereafter
BUT in poetry it is quite common to use NEAR rhymes, in which MOST of these sounds match (and the rest, if possible, 'come close'). There are many words that would work in this instance, esp. those ending with /a-ter/ (some other sound in place of the /f/)
It is NOT true that "any word ending in -ter" will work -- the ACCENTED syllable (with the sound /AF/) must somehow match.
Those with "-aster" are some of the best (since /f/ and /s/ are pronounced at nearly the same spot in the mouth, and both without the voice)
aster, alabaster, blaster, cadaster, caster, disaster, faster, gaster, laster, master, pastor, pasture*, piaster, pilaster, pinaster, plaster, raster, vaster
* - adds an extra insereted "y-" after the /t/), but still close
Next closest:
apter, adapter, chapter, raptor
capture, rapture
Then:
actor, abstracter, attractor, captor, compacter, detractor, exacter, factor, impacter, reactor, redactor, refractor, subtracter, tractor
fracture, manufacture
And MAYBE these (omitting the /f/ sound altogether):
batter, bespatter, betatter, blatter, chatter, clatter, fatter, flatter, formatter, hatter, latter, matter, natter, patter, pinaster, platter, ratter, scatter, shatter, smatter, spatter, splatter, tatter, yatter
Might possibly get away with "aperture", since the intervening syllable /per/ is unaccented and glided over quickly (note how close "aperture" and "capture" are to perfect rhymes when you say them together)
You might also want to try this GREAT site for "near rhymes", which allows you a lot of flexibility about HOW near you want to look for --
http://www.nearrhyme.com
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Bonus -- if you were writing in ELIZABETHAN English, apparently "daughter" also could have worked (Shakespeare rhymes "after" and "daughter" -- in "The Taming of the Shrew", Act I, scene I, lines 244–5)
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2007-09-19 02:29:23
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answered by bruhaha 7
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did you know that laughter is only one letter from slaughter??
here is a link you can try: also do the search for words ending with the same letters.. http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=laughter&typeofrhyme=perfect&org1=syl&org2=l
after, drafter, rafter, be after, chase after, come after, go after, hereafter, lech after, look after, lust after, point after, quest after, sought after, take after, thereafter,
2007-09-18 19:01:52
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answered by firechick1721 6
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