When sounds match up at the end of a line It’s called ‘end rhyme’ and sounds mighty fine So who wins the battle? And the prize of a rattle? Let’s call it a draw? Okay, that’s fine. When words have ...

Whether you're at the supermarket, the park or home, it is always a good time to practise rhyming words. Recognising and producing rhymes is a key skill, which will help unlock important language and ...

Want to convince someone of something? Make up a rhyme. They may think it’s cutesy, but they’ll still believe it more readily than if it were stated plainly. At least until they are asked to think ...

Aurash Z. Vatan ’23 is a resident of Mather House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays. What’s so important about rhyme? Why does it have a stranglehold on so much of humanity’s collective ...

Sex, death and cruelty. Chris Roberts, the author of Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme, tells Debbie Elliott what lurks beneath the surface of those verses we learned as children ...