Well, if you adhere to the correct pronunciation, there is no perfect rhyme in English, seeing that the -e of Latin "me" is not a diphthong nor the familiar ee sound of our pronoun "me", but was probably equivalent to French accented é, which same sound is found in all Romance tongues. The closest to this is the i- of "it", but unfortunately, no English word ends in this short vowel, well not unless you drop final consonants like the British Cockneys do: A bi' of ( A bit of). Not just the Cockneys, but increasingly nowadays many educated Brits are sloppy with final consonants. Sorta reminds me of the Spanish almost ignoring final -s and -z. And, is it me, or am I imagining that there are more Brits than any other nationality with the inability to pronounce inter-syllabic -r-, as in "co-wect", for "correct"?
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