👉 In linguistics, a rhymeproof is a list of words that are used to indicate whether or not each word in a sentence is a rhyme. It is often used when analyzing poetry or prose to determine if the words rhyme or not. For example, in the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, the rhymeproof for the first line is "I am not taken; you are." The second line has no rhyming word listed because it uses a