Poets ofttimes find themselves backed into a corner when writing more traditional rhyming poetry. They find they've ended a line with the unpromising word 'orange' and at present have to try to find a discussion that rhymes with it, or else change the offending word for something more rhyme-friendly. Just 'world' is a curious instance: a common and useful word for a poet to use, simply one without many ready and available rhyming words. Later all, what words rhyme with 'world'?

Beneath we innovate some possible options, and propose some means in which they might really exist woven into a verse form and so that they rhyme with the discussion 'world' but besides sound natural and not overly forced.

Unfurled.

This is surely a mutual word for poets to use precisely because it is one of the few well-known rhymes for 'world'. The word 'unfurled' simply means 'spread something out from a rolled or folded state, especially in order to be open to the wind'. And so a flag might be unfurled when it'southward put on a flagpole, or a leaf might become unfurled to the wind. Of form, the word might also be used metaphorically: for instance, to describe someone whose personality or spirit, previously kept folded up and locked away, has been 'unfurled' and let loose on the 'world'.

'Unfurled' is both the past tense form of 'unfurl' and the by participle form. So yous tin say that 'I have unfurled X' (e.k., 'I unfurled the flag') or 'the flag that was unfurled' (or, if you lot wish to be more figurative, 'the heart that was unfurled').

The opening of Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem 'Hold Hymn' provides a fine instance of the unfurled/world rhyme in the context of flag-unfurling:

By the rude span that arched the flood,
Their flag to April'south breeze unfurled,
Here one time the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.

Furled.

More rarely, a poet might adopt the contrary of 'unfurled'. So 'furled' ways 'neatly and securely rolled or folded up'. It's often used nigh things like umbrellas, which are rolled upwards when not in apply, but again, the figurative possibilities are numerous.

The word 'furled' was memorably used – every bit a rhyme for 'world' – in Matthew Arnold's classic poem 'Dover Embankment', written in 1851:

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth'due south shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I merely hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the jiff
Of the dark-wind, downwards the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Curled.

We all know what 'curled' means, and many things tin can be described as curled or curled round: hair, a snake, the edges of a volume or sheet of paper, and so on. Then 'curled' is an specially versatile rhyme for 'world'.

Uncurled.

Every bit with 'furled' and 'unfurled', so 'curled' finds its complementary reverse in 'uncurled', a verb meaning to straighten out the curls in something – once more, hair is i obvious case.

Hurled.

A synonym for 'thrown', the word 'hurled' is a powerful, energetic verb which is also 1 of the few perfect rhymes for 'earth'. At that place's a good instance in Henry Vaughan's seventeenth-century poem 'The Globe':

I saw Eternity the other dark,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
All calm, as it was bright;
And round below it, Time in hours, days, years,
Driv'n by the spheres
Like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the globe
And all her train were hurl'd.

Swirled.

'Swirled' is perhaps the best and virtually perfect rhyming discussion for 'world', because it not only rhymes with it: 'swirled' even contains 'earth'.

Twirled.

With a like pregnant to 'swirled' – many words that rhyme with earthseem to denote a round, coiled, or eddying motility or shape – this discussion likewise contains the sound of 'world', which is rather pleasing.

Whirled.

When is a rhyme not a rhyme? When it isrime riche, the French term for when 2 homophones are rhymed, e.yard.whirledandworld. Although one might quibble that theh should be aspirated inwhirled, these 2 words are evidently nearly identical in sound, at the very least. And again we take a strong, circular, eddying verb, which fits nicely with the roundness of 'earth'.

Pararhymes or half-rhymes for 'globe':

Given the express options for rhymes for 'world', yous might decide that pararhyme, or consonance, is a better fashion to make the word 'world' chime with others at the ends of lines. Here are some of the all-time matches.

Wild.

'Wild' is 1 of the best half-rhymes for 'world', if consonance or pararhyme is what you lot're striving for, non least because of the shared first and final letters ('w__ld'), also as the established phrase, 'wild globe'.

Willed.

Another good selection for the consonance of 'world' and 'willed', and the word 'willed' – every bit in 'the spirit willed me to strive', etc. – contains a tenacity and forcefulness which may complement the grandeur and vastness of 'world' very neatly.

Assuming.

'Bold' is a common word and so would be quite a natural and organic 'fit' for a word like 'earth'. Once again, they have the shared final consonants, but considering their initial sounds differ, the effect is more subtle and frail. 'Bold' and 'world' could be brought together at the ends of adjacent lines, for instance, but in a way that doesn't appear forced or artificial.

Similar 'willed', 'bold' is a nice strong, spirited word.

Concord.

Nosotros'll conclude this choice of words which rhyme with 'globe' – or offering a good half-rhyme – with 'concord', another multi-purpose word which can exist used to convey a diverseness of meanings.

A skilful example of the hold/globe pararhyme is in the opening section of W. B. Yeats's 1919 verse form 'The 2nd Coming', where the off-rhyme conveys the anarchy into which the world has been plunged. The old certainties are gone, then how can 1 mayhap fall back on the certainty of rhyme?

Turning and turning in the widening whorl
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the globe,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are total of passionate intensity.