The Complete Rhyming Dictionary: Including the Poet's Craftbook
This simple-to-use, exceptionally complete reference work has been updated, expanded and redesigned to meet the needs of today's most demanding wordsmiths. Included here are over 10,000 new entries--over 60,000 in all, sight, vowel, consonant, and one-, two-, and three-syllable rhymes.\ \ A classic on the Doubleday backlist for more than 50 years, this rhyming dictionary has been completely revised and updated to become the most comprehensive guide available for poets,...
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This simple-to-use, exceptionally complete reference work has been updated, expanded and redesigned to meet the needs of today's most demanding wordsmiths. Included here are over 10,000 new entries—over 60,000 in all, sight, vowel, consonant, and one-, two-, and three-syllable rhymes.
The Poet's Craft BookI.Poetry and Versification3Poetry and Verse3Poetry in Human Affairs4The Poet's Equipment5Poetic Greatness5How Poems Come6Originality in Poetry7II.The Technique of Versification: Rhythm9Accent and Rhythm9Meter and Metric Feet11Iambic Verse13Trochaic Verse16Anapestic Verse18Dactylic Verse19Variations in Metric Verse20Accent Pattern Instead of Metric22Blank Verse and Free Verse23Line Length in Verse25Important Classical Terms for Poetic Devices26III.The Technique of Versification: Rhyme29Correct and Incorrect Rhyme29Function and Types of Rhyme33Undesirable Rhymes36Alliteration37Assonance38Consonance38Your Mental Rhyming Dictionary40IV.Stanza Patterns44The Couplet44The Triplet or Tercet45The Quatrain46Stanzas of More Than Four Lines48Certain Other Stanzas50Sapphics and Other Classic Forms53Indentation56V.Divisions of Poetry59Narrative Poetry: Epic, Metrical Romance, Tale, Ballad59Dramatic Poetry62Lyric Poetry: Ode, Elegy, Pastoral62The Simple Lyric: The Song64The Sonnet65VI.The French Forms, Light and Humorous Verse70Formal and Light Verse70Rules of the Fixed Verse Forms72The Ballade Family72Chain Verse79The Kyrielle80The Pantoum80The Triolet81The Rondel, Rondeau and Roundel Family83The Sestina89The Villanelle92The Lai and the Virelai93The Limerick95Little Willies98Light Verse in English99VII.Poetry and Technique103The Vocabulary of Poetry103On Translating Poetry108Exercises in Versification111VIII.The Complete Rhyming Dictionary112What Rhyme Is112The Vowel Sounds112The Consonant Sounds114Sound Does Not Depend on Spelling115This Dictionary Makes Consonance Accurate116The Dictionary of Rhyming WordsI.Monosyllables and Words Accented on the Last Syllable: Masculine Rhymes: Single Rhymes121Accented Vowel A Sounds121Accented Vowel E Sounds164Accented Vowel I Sounds209Accented Vowel O Sounds247Accented Vowel U Sounds280II.Words Accented on the Syllable Before the Last: Penults; Feminine Rhymes; Double Rhymes307Accented Vowel A Sounds307Accented Vowel E Sounds400Accented Vowel I Sounds456Accented Vowel O Sounds514Accented Vowel U Sounds571III.Words Accented on the Third Syllable from the End: Antepenults; Triple Rhymes620Accented Vowel A Sounds620Accented Vowel E Sounds639Accented Vowel I Sounds655Accented Vowel O Sounds674Accented Vowel U Sounds696Sources705
