Does "know" rhyme with "know"?

[Wildcard]

I agree with Dale (for once :p) a rhyme and the same word are not the same concept. Like a synonym of a word shares the same meaning, a homonym shares the same sounds. A rhyme is not a homonym nor can it be because a rhyme is produced by altering the original sound.

Hate and
ate.

Rhyme because I dropped the 'H'

ate and
eight

do not rhyme- they are homonyms.

Of course, this is all just my way of looking at it. In the poem that this started in, my intent was not to pass off 'know' as a rhyme for 'know' the lines were:

His face hinted that he must know
and no one could knowingly know.

I just wanted to make it obvious that I was repeating the 'no' sound- like 'no no no'. In my estimation the end result was