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by steanne 658 days ago
i've heard

0C is cold

10C is not

20C is warm

30C is hot

which rhymes

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Another rhyme

30 is hot

20 is nice

10 is cold

0 is ice

non native speaker here: how does h"ot" and c"old" rhyme? it's a different 'o' sound and d/t is not exactly similar also.
To add to the other replies, here's the English page for rhyming schemes, which calls this pattern "XAXA".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme_scheme

A more notable version of the same idea, which includes more unrhymed lines, is double dactyl (XXXA XXXA). Though this is more for poetry/limerick, and not for mnemonics.

No worries, you're correct, those lines don't rhyme.

It's pretty common for English poetry and songs to only rhyme every other line

they don't. in both cases, only every other line is rhyming. hot and not, ice and nice.