Life begins with a joyful cry, Welcoming us to this world so spry. As infants we know warmth and care, Nurtured each day with love beyond compare.
Life brings richness, complexity and profound meaning – and it also sparks creativity. Finding rhyming words about life that ring harmoniously when paired opens a poetic exploration of all it encompasses.
From the mundane to profound, rhyme reflects life’s textures, ups and downs. Whether mirroring life’s routines or gracing deeper insights, rhyme captures life through sound. Let’s see what rhyming reveals as we consider words wrapt loudly or whispered quietly in time with “life.”
Strings may strike familiar everyday notes akin to routine. Or verses could verge toward more vividly picturing life’s profound mysteries. However, words wing, thinking of rhymes reminds the relish to be found even within limits.
So let’s lively consider this bouquet of rhyming options plucked for “life.” Who knows where syncopated sounds may lead life-long learners to appreciate surprising beauty constantly renewed.
1-syllable:
fife, flyff, fyfe, fyffe, greiff, knife, pfeife, pfeiff, phyfe, rife, saif, schleif, schleife, slife, streife, streiff, strife, wife
2-syllables:
alife, archwife, birdlife, bread knife, bread knife, bromlife, c.i.f, case knife, clasp-knife, clasp knife, co-wife, drawknife, ex-wife, fairlife, fastlife, fish-knife, fishwife, fish knife, flick-knife, folklife, goodwife, half-life, halflife, hashlife, highlife, housewife, huswife, jack-knife, jackknife, jacknife, long-life, loosestrife, lot’s wife, low-life, lowlife, lymelife, medlife, metlife, mid-life, midlife, midwife, mylife, nightlife, nonlife, oldwife, parklife, penknife, poplyfe, prelife, pro-life, real-life, relife, seawife, self-life, sex/life, sheath-knife, sheath knife, shelf-life, simlife, southlife, spaewife, stakeknife, steak knife, still-life, tradwife, trench knife, true-life, westlife, whole-life, wildlife, work-life
3-syllables:
after-life, after.life, afterlife, antilife, bowie-knife, bowie knife, butcher knife, butterknife, butter knife, c.l.i.f., carving knife, cash4life, counterlife, cyberknife, end-of-life, herbalife, hunting knife, manulife, man and wife, nurse-midwife, otherlife, palette knife, paper knife, paring knife, pocketknife, pocket knife, pruning knife, pudding-wife, puddingwife, putty knife, right-to-life, shadowlife, slice-of-life, spiked loosestrife, switchblade knife, table knife, the good wife, toys-to-life, true-to-life, wakerife, woodmenlife, yellowknife
4-syllables:
call the midwife, circles.life, garden loosestrife, generalife, hyssop loosestrife, larger-than-life, purple loosestrife, surgical knife, yellow loosestrife
5-syllables:
linoleum knife
Near Rhymes:
Five, eyes, design, fire, applied, died, fine, despite, file, drive, describe, guide, fight, divine, crime, device, ice, advice, height, define, decline, bright, 65, flight, alive, beside, arise, aside, cried, implies, denied, applies, arrive, hide, alike, allies, divide, dried, hostile, implied, combine, guys, delight, derive, dies, climb, bride, hire, bite, benign, flies, invite, cries, eyed, assign, fertile, advise, bile, comprise, dial, dislike, admire, analyse, cite, disguise, coincide, inquire, denies, inspire, fried, dive, bike, demise, devise, concise, buys, dire, byte, isle, awhile, confine, abide, dyes, hyde, guise, fright, dice, excite, dine, deprive, align, excise, compile, hike, despise, complied, aspire, glide, alright, ire, clive, ascribe, incline, fide, bribe, defied, dime, brine, blight, kite, fires, hive, condyle, expire, dries, defies, collide, dike, ignite, entice