what ryhmes with CORPSE?

Question

(im writing a poem about WWI)

Answer 1

The only PERFECT rhyme, as several have noted, is "warps". But it's doubtful that will help you much.

Fortunately, as mentioned by another answer, you don't need a PERFECT rhyme in most poetry. You need something where the sounds are close enough to work... a "near rhyme". The best near rhymes tend to be those in which ALL the vowels from the accented syllable on match exactly ("full assonance") or at least very nearly, and the LAST consonant matches ("final assoance"). It helps if the remaining consonant sounds are fairly close.

In THIS case, O & R are SO closely connected you can hardly leave out the R (the vowel sound changes if you drop it). So what you probably want is a word ending something like -OR-S. Between the R & S you might have almost any consonant or none at all, though the BEST choices will sound somewhat close to that P-sound (most likely to work - t, k, f )

Here are some suggestions. (I will put the ones I think might be the most useful for YOUR purposes --either 'war related' or very general words -- in all caps).

aborts, courts, exports, FORTS, imports, quartz, ports, REPORTS, SORTS, sports, SUPPORTS, (re)torts, warts

corks, forks, storks, Yorks

dwarfs [verb], morphs

coarse, course, ENDORSE, ENFORCE, FORCE, HORSE, Morse, Norse, remorse, source

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MORE DISTANT

If you try a similar pattern with D, M, N, B and V it might work, though not quite as well, since these sounds all use the voice, which the /p/ does not. (Notice that this also causes the final "s" to make a voiced /z/ sound rather than the simple, unvoiced /s/ sound of corpse and the words suggested so far.)

But if you're still not finding something you are happy with, and you're not willing or able to re-write the line to place a different word in the "rhyme position", you might try some of these:

affords, boards, cords, chords, fjords, fords, gourds, HORDES, lords, SWORDS, towards, wards

dorms, FORMS, norms, STORMS, SWARMS, warms
adorns, horns, morns, MOURNS, scorns, WARNS

absorbs, orbs
dwarves, wharves

adores, bores, cores, doors, explores, flours, fores, ignores, implores, lores, pores, pours, SHORES, snores, spores, stores, WARS

One final group to consider is similar to the first group but uses the /sh/ sound at the end in place of the /s/ sound (a close relative):

porch, SCORCH, TORCH (the actual SOUND is /-ortsh/)

Answer 2

Corpse

Answer 3

Course.
As in: ' a corpse is a corpse, of course, of course, and no one can talk to a corpse , of course, that is,of course unless the corpse is the famous Mr. Dead.'

Answer 4

Remember, rhyming doesn't have to only be a word that sounds the same (as someone suggested, "warps"). You can also use consonance (when consonants match) or assonance (when vowels match).

Answer 5

I can't wait to see this poem. That is a most unusual rhyme request

Answer 6

may be "orbs" could rhyme with it...

it means eyeball..u can write like seeing the corpse out came

the orbs :)

Answer 7

Forks.

Answer 8

"Warps". This could actually work nicely in your poem..go fer it.

Answer 9

where is Ogden Nash and Doctor Seuss when you need them?

Answer 10

Warps :)