The rhymes in this section have the ‘ire’ sound of tyre and admirer as their main or final vowel sound.
19.1 [see also] briar, brier, byre, choir, dire, Dwyer, fire, friar, gyre, hire, ire, lyre, mire, prior, Prior, pyre, quire, shire, sire, spire, squire, tire, tyre, Tyre, via, wire, * aspire, perspire, conspire, attire, acquire, Maguire, afire, admire, transpire, backfire, barbed wire, spare tyre, rewire, respire, expire, inspire, retire, entire, Kintyre, misfire, require, enquire, esquire, inquire, bemire, desire, Bushire, * vampire, satire, sapphire, campfire, samphire, quagmire, grandsire, haywire, empire, Empire, hellfire, shellfire, cease-fire, sweetbrier, spitfire, Spitfire, tripwire, pismire, wildfire, bonfire, crossfire, saltire, sure-fire, umpire, gunfire, drumfire, bushfire, * lammergeier, McIntyre, retrofire, retrochoir, reacquire
Here lies a poor woman who always was tired,
For she lived in a place where help wasn’t hired.
EPITAPH
19.2 fired, hired, sired, tired, wired, * aspired, perspired, conspired, attired, acquired, admired, transpired, backfired, rewired, expired, inspired, retired, misfired, required, enquired, desired, * gas-fired, oil-fired, coal-fired, * overtired, underwired, unexpired, uninspired, * semiretired, etc.
19.3 dial, Lyell, Niall, phial, trial, vial, viol, * redial, retrial, espial, misdial, mistrial, denial, * sundial, * self-denial
19.4 Byers, fires, Myers, quires, shires, spires, tyres, wires, * perspires, admires, expires, requires, desires, * vampires, campfires, Blackfriars, Greyfriars, Spitfires, Whitefriars, * Molly Maguires, etc.
Religion blushing veils her sacred fires,
And unawares Morality expires.
ALEXANDER POPE
20.1 direly, Brierley, diary, fiery, friary, miry, priory, wiry, enquiry, inquiry, expiry, * entirely
20.2 dialler, Viola, direr, firer, hirer, Ira, Lyra, Myra, wirer, * aspirer, conspirer, acquirer, admirer, retirer, enquirer, inquirer, * spirogyra, * admire her, inspire her, etc.
20.3 Hiram, tiresome, * fire ’em, wire ’em, etc.
20.4 Ireland, diamond
20.5 violent, tyrant, * nonviolent, acquirement, requirement, retirement
20.6 violence, tyrants, * nonviolence, requirements, etc.
20.7 dialling, hireling, trialling, hiring, firing, tiring, wiring, * aspiring, perspiring, conspiring, untiring, admiring, retiring, inspiring, misfiring, inquiring, desiring, * uninspiring, etc.
20.8 tireless, wireless, Cyrus, virus, tiredness, * papyrus, Epirus, desirous, * parvovirus, retrovirus, herpesvirus, * hire us, fired us, etc.
20.9 triallist, violist, diarist, lyrist
20.10 spirelet, violet, * inviolate, * ultraviolet, * hire it, dial it, etc.
20.11 spirally, violently, tiresomely, tirelessly, * entirety, admiringly, * uninspiringly
20.12 hirable, spiracle, * inviolable, acquirable, desirable, * undesirable