The practice of creating rhymes has often led to the combination of ideas that would not otherwise have occurred. Consider these lines from George Herbert as an example:

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,

Like season’d timber, never gives: (=gives way)

But though the whole world turn to coal,

Then chiefly lives.

Rhymes are also valuable in aiding one’s memory. Here’s a rhyme to encourage people to conserve water:

If it is yellow

Let it mellow;

But if it is brown

Flush it down.

Learners can be encouraged to collect famous rhymes from established poets or create their own funny, happy, sad or serious rhymes. The school can also arrange competitions where learners will have to complete the line by providing the rhyming word:-

He clasps the crags with crooked hands;

Close to the sun in lonely … (lands) (Tennyson)

Oh! never fly conceals a hook,

Fish say, in the Eternal … (Brook) (Rupert Brooke)

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright

In the forests of the … (night) (Blake)

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supplied with the most recent facts about something (a)

a car with two doors, a sloping back, and a hard fixed roof (c)

the long high-pitched sound that a horse makes (n)

rich ice cream flavoured with fruit (p)

horse-drawn vehicle on runners, used for travel on snow (s)

a hormone secreted by the adrenal gland to treat rheumatoid arthritis (c)

a large-scale storm system with rotating winds (c)

a chemical substance that exerts a regulatory effect (h)

a gaseous form of oxygen with three oxygen atoms per molecule (o)

to put something off until a later time or date (p)

somebody who is in charge of and announces the bids at an auction (a)

somebody who operates or services machines (e)

a person or group that is the first to do something (p)

something bought or kept as a reminder of a particular place (s)

a thin layer of a material fixed to the surface of another material (v)

an easy, clever way of doing something (k)

a small crude building typically made of boards (s)

food eaten in place of a regular meal (s)

a pile of things more or less neatly arranged (s)

pair of parallel rails on which a vehicle, especially a train, runs, (t)

the part of a machine or vehicle that slows it down or stops it (b)

a male duck (d)

a small flat piece (f)

to shake or tremble (q)

to satisfy a desire for something, especially a drink (s)

to persuade somebody to believe in something that is untrue (d)

to strip somebody or something bare (d)

to force or squeeze something out (e)

to release a liquid etc slowly from a gland, pore or membrane (e)

to disturb somebody’s peace or privacy (I)

to impose something such as opinions or yourself on other people (o)

to stop up something such as a passage (oc)

to prevent something or make it impossible (p)

to stick out from the surroundings (p)

to remove somebody from contact with others (s)

to make changes to something, especially a piece of text (a)

to put somebody suspected of wrongdoing into legal custody (a)

to praise somebody or something (c)

to make believe (p)

to stop something or make something ineffective (s)

a thing that is similar to or has the same function as another (a)

a list of goods for sale (c)

the words spoken by characters in a book or play (d)

a short speech at the end of a play (e)

a long passage in a play or film spoken by one actor (m)

the part of a machine or vehicle that slows it down or stops it (b)

a male duck (d)

a small flat piece (f)

to shake or tremble (q)

to satisfy a desire for something, especially a drink (s)

to persuade somebody to believe in something that is untrue (d)

to strip somebody or something bare (d)

to force or squeeze something out (e)

to release a liquid etc slowly from a gland, pore or membrane (e)

to disturb somebody’s peace or privacy (I)

to impose something such as opinions or yourself on other people (o)

to stop up something such as a passage (oc)

to prevent something or make it impossible (p)

to stick out from the surroundings (p)

to remove somebody from contact with others (s)

to make changes to something, especially a piece of text (a)

to put somebody suspected of wrongdoing into legal custody (a)

to praise somebody or something (c)

to make believe (p)

to stop something or make something ineffective (s)

a thing that is similar to or has the same function as another (a)

a list of goods for sale (c)

the words spoken by characters in a book or play (d)

a short speech at the end of a play (e)

a long passage in a play or film spoken by one actor (m)

to beg somebody for something (e)

a true extract from or copy of a legal record (e)

to treat somebody or something badly or cruelly (m)

to treat somebody or something badly or roughly (m)

a movement away from danger or a confrontation (r)

to travel regularly from one place to another (c)

to question or doubt the truth or validity of something (d)

to attribute a usually undesirable action or event to somebody (i)

to change something from one form to another (t)

to prove something to be false ®

a facet, phase, or part of a whole (a)

to examine something carefully in order to judge its quality (i)

likelihood that something will happen in the near future (p)

a feeling or attitude of admiration (r)

to believe that somebody may have committed a crime (s)

to make something smaller by applying pressure (c)

to state thoughts or feelings in words (e)

to bring about a strong or lasting effect

to subject a people to a harsh or cruel form of domination (o)

to put an end to something (s)

to repeal or abolish something formally and publicly (a)

to claim something for yourself without the right to do so (a)

to deviate from a norm, rule, law, or set of conditions (d)

to substitute one person for another, in transferring a right (s)

somebody who takes the place of somebody else (s)