How to Improve Your Rhyming

Make a commitment. Developing any skill requires consistent effort and practice. Even those with talent have to practice to make sure their skills are at their sharpest. Make a daily 30-minute commitment to practicing rhyme in some way.

Expose yourself to rhyme everyday. Listen to songs or read poetry to teach yourself the various ways others use rhyme. You will also learn what words are often rhymed with others, and how to deal with challenging rhyme schemes.

Write a few one-syllable words onto flashcards. On the other side of each flashcard, write a few words that rhyme with the word on the front. Go through the flashcards every day. Committing these to memory will help you rhyme more quickly. See if you can come up with at least one new rhyme per word each day. Add some two-syllable words next.

Buy a rhyming dictionary. Read through at least one word a few times each day. Say the word and its rhymes out loud to help better commit them to memory.

Suggest playing a rhyming game with a friend. Have your friend say a word easy to rhyme such as "tree" or "cat." Take turns saying a word that rhymes with the start word until you've run out of words. Gradually move onto more difficult words with more syllables.