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Rhymes with "three". 4 Knock at the door From the Nursery rhyme One, Two, Buckle my shoe; Three, Four, Knock at the door. 5 Man alive: Rhymes with "five". 6 Half a dozen: A common phrase meaning six units (see "12" below). Tom Mix Rhymes with "six". 7 Lucky : 7 is considered a lucky number in some cultures; see also "73". 8 Garden gate
Swainson's warbler. Swallow tanager. Swallow-tailed bee-eater. Swallow-tailed cotinga. Swallow-tailed gull. Swallow-tailed hummingbird. Swallow-tailed kite. Swallow-tailed nightjar. Swallow-winged puffbird.
Bouts-Rimés. Bouts-Rimés ( French, literally 'rhymed-ends') is the name given to a kind of poetic game defined by Addison in the Spectator as "lists of words that rhyme to one another, drawn up by another hand, and given to a poet, who was to make a poem to the rhymes in the same order that they were placed upon the list".
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs.
concoction, decoction (In GA, these rhyme with auction; there is also the YouTube slang word obnoxion, meaning something that is obnoxious.) distinguish, extinguish; pneumatic, rheumatic; Anapestic pairs. In an anapestic pair, each word is an anapest and has the first and second syllables unstressed and the third syllable stressed.
Growl, low, guttural vocalization produced by predatory animals. Hiss, sound made by a snake. Honk, call of the male Canada goose. Hoot, call of an owl. Howl, sound made by canines, especially wolves. Meow, cry of a cat. Moo, sound of a cow. Purr, a tonal, fluttering sound made by all members of the cat family.
Rhyme scheme. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. An example of the ABAB rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea, who may Command him Anything", by Robert Herrick :
All hands on deck/to the pump. All is grist that comes to the mill [a] All roads lead to Rome [a] [b] All that glitters/glistens is not gold [a] [b] All the world loves a lover [a] All things come to those who wait [a] All things must pass [a] All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy [a] [b] All you need is love.