by Kathie Stamps
Let’s discuss the anatomy and physiology of poetry, shall we? With anatomical body parts. Hey, do you remember that TV commercial about soap and how it cleaned your 2,000 body parts? Lever 2000, that was it. (Pausing to jump in a tiny rabbit hole, a baby bunny hole, to find out the soap as been discontinued.) (Although, a longer rabbit hole could have revealed a comeback, maybe? Who knows.)
Anyhoodles. It’s quite the brain teaser to think of body parts that rhyme. And we’re not talking functions; just parts. So no, you can’t thyme heart and—a rhyming function—and get any credit for it.
This list has taken me years to compile. Maybe 20 of them. I still can’t come up with a rhyme for head, hair, leg, arm, common things like that. Please comment if you can add to this list of 12 rhyming body parts.
Rhyming body parts include brain and vein, eyes and thighs, ear and rear.
More rhyming body parts include nose and toes, cheeks and obliques, lips and hips.
A triple rhyme made the list of rhyming body parts! Tongue and lung, chin-shin-skin, pharynx and larynx.
And in the PG category, rounding out our 12 rhyming body parts: glands and hands, breast and chest, gut and butt.