Jeremy Desmon writes: “RhymeHamster is a rhyming dictionary I edit by hand. What may interest formal poets most is that perfect rhymes are kept strict, so near misses don’t slip into the list. Slant rhymes are kept separate, on a dial you can adjust. It’s free, with no ads and no login.”
When Jeremy approached me with his rhyming dictionary, my first action was to check for rhymes with ‘orange’. This is a tricky word, as different people treat it differently: as one syllable or as two. Versification is complicated in English by words like this. ‘Fire’ and ‘child’ come to mind – they create interesting opportunities for metre as well as challenges for rhyme. Anyway, RhymeHamster doesn’t list ‘sporange’, ‘the Blorange’ or ‘Daniel Gorringe’ which (to me) are all perfect rhymes.
Eminem has a further take on rhymes for orange – here is a 2-minute clip from a 2025 ’60 Minutes’ interview, with some solid slant rhymes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgQI655FqtM&t=131s
Jeremy Desmon is a musical theater bookwriter and lyricist. For twenty years he has taught a playwriting workshop at Princeton, focused on musicals and songwriting.
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My first thought was to put in ‘purple’ because there is a perfect rhyme for purple, but only in Scots. A widely used word in Scotland is to hirple which means to limp. I was hirpling along the road this very afternoon.
All the same, I love the RhymeHamster site, and its cheery, encouraging design, even if it doesn’t go as far as to hirple, although I love the idea of including ‘stretch rhymes’ (chirp ‘ll).
As for orange, if you can stretch a word a wee bit further, you can have oranger — meaning more orange — and rhyme it with the Scots word porringer, which is the bowl out of which you eat your porridge.
Daniel Gorringe also strikes me as perfectly acceptable rhyme-wise, although for several other reasons I wouldn’t want him in my poem.
Very glad to know about RhymeHamster. Thank you!
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