In everyday use, if you ask “what rhymes with ‘five’?” people assume you want what is called a PERFECT rhyme. In a perfect rhyme EVERY sound in the word must match EXACTLY from the vowel of the syllable that has the accent to the end of the word.

In other words, a perfect rhyme for “eye” must be a word ending with the long /i/ sound, and that syllable must have the accent ==

You can find MANY of these at a place like rhymezone.com, simply by typing your original word in the search box (same from “five)…

A perfect rhyme for “five” must end with an accented “-ive” (and that “i” must be a “long i”), such as:

arrive, alive, contrive, hive, jive, dive, thrive

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BUT this is not the ONLY type of “rhyme”. Rhyme is used for OTHER ways in which words use the same or similar sounds.

One very important type is FINAL ASSONANCE (a type of “near rhyme”), in which the VOWELS match (from the accented vowel to the end), but the consonants may not. This is what you have with “five” and “eye”.

And, as a matter of fact, assonance (and other types of rhyme) are quite common in poetry, INCLUDING at the end of lines in poetry (the place we most associate with rhyme).

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Definition of “perfect rhyme:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/83/P0188300.html

My own scheme (edited from several sources) of types of rhyme:

Perfect rhyme (all sounds match from at least vowel of stressed syllable on)

* Masculine rhyme (last syllable stressed)

* Feminine rhyme (earlier syllable stressed)

* Identical rhyme (same words, different meanings)

* Rich rhyme/”rime riche” (word and its homonym , sea/see)

* Macaronic rhyme (words from different languages)

Near rhyme (half, slant, approximate, off, oblique)

* Assonance (matches only vowels – update/subway)

* Consonance (matches only consonants – miss/mass)

* Light line (stressed syllable with secondary stress)

* Wrenched rhyme (stressed syllable with unstressed)

Mine is The Scholastic Rhyming Dictionary,,by Sue Young.

Good luck

my, by, sly, fly and die rhymes with eye

Fives

Eyes