Nursery rhymes are little poems for children that often rhyme.
Grown-ups have sung nursery rhymes to babies for a very long time. The rhymes make them easy to remember.
More facts about Rhyming Words
Rhyming words end with the same sound, like "cat" and "hat."
Many songs and poems use rhyming words.
"Star" and "car" rhyme because they end with the same sound.
Words can rhyme even when they are spelled differently, like "blue" and "shoe."
The word "orange" is famous for having almost no words that rhyme with it.