The Complete Rhyming Dictionary

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ISBN: 9780440212058 | 0440212057
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/2/1992

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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 Book
Poetry and Versification	p. 3
Poetry and Verse	p. 3
Poetry in Human Affairs	p. 4
The Poet's Equipment	p. 5
Poetic Greatness	p. 5
How Poems Come	p. 6
Originality in Poetry	p. 7
The Technique of Versification: Rhythm	p. 9
Accent and Rhythm	p. 9
Meter and Metric Feet	p. 11
Iambic Verse	p. 13
Trochaic Verse	p. 16
Anapestic Verse	p. 18
Dactylic Verse	p. 19
Variations in Metric Verse	p. 20
Accent Pattern Instead of Metric	p. 22
Blank Verse and Free Verse	p. 23
Line Length in Verse	p. 25
Important Classical Terms for Poetic Devices	p. 26
The Technique of Versification: Rhyme	p. 29
Correct and Incorrect Rhyme	p. 29
Function and Types of Rhyme	p. 33
Undesirable Rhymes	p. 36
Alliteration	p. 37
Assonance	p. 38
Consonance	p. 38
Your Mental Rhyming Dictionary	p. 40
Stanza Patterns	p. 44
The Couplet	p. 44
The Triplet or Tercet	p. 45
The Quatrain	p. 46
Stanzas of More Than Four Lines	p. 48
Certain Other Stanzas	p. 50
Sapphics and Other Classic Forms	p. 53
Indentation	p. 56
Divisions of Poetry	p. 59
Narrative Poetry: Epic, Metrical Romance, Tale, Ballad	p. 59
Dramatic Poetry	p. 62
Lyric Poetry: Ode, Elegy, Pastoral	p. 62
The Simple Lyric: The Song	p. 64
The Sonnet	p. 65
The French Forms, Light and Humorous Verse	p. 70
Formal and Light Verse	p. 70
Rules of the Fixed Verse Forms	p. 72
The Ballade Family	p. 72
Chain Verse	p. 79
The Kyrielle	p. 80
The Pantoum	p. 80
The Triolet	p. 81
The Rondel, Rondeau and Roundel Family	p. 83
The Sestina	p. 89
The Villanelle	p. 92
The Lai and the Virelai	p. 93
The Limerick	p. 95
Little Willies	p. 98
Light Verse in English	p. 99
Poetry and Technique	p. 103
The Vocabulary of Poetry	p. 103
On Translating Poetry	p. 108
Exercises in Versification	p. 111
The Complete Rhyming Dictionary	p. 112
What Rhyme Is	p. 112
The Vowel Sounds	p. 112
The Consonant Sounds	p. 114
Sound Does Not Depend on Spelling	p. 115
This Dictionary Makes Consonance Accurate	p. 116
The Dictionary of Rhyming Words
Monosyllables and Words Accented on the Last Syllable: Masculine Rhymes: Single Rhymes	p. 121
Accented Vowel A Sounds	p. 121
Accented Vowel E Sounds	p. 164
Accented Vowel I Sounds	p. 209
Accented Vowel O Sounds	p. 247
Accented Vowel U Sounds	p. 280
Words Accented on the Syllable Before the Last: Penults; Feminine Rhymes; Double Rhymes	p. 307
Accented Vowel A Sounds	p. 307
Accented Vowel E Sounds	p. 400
Accented Vowel I Sounds	p. 456
Accented Vowel O Sounds	p. 514
Accented Vowel U Sounds	p. 571
Words Accented on the Third Syllable from the End: Antepenults; Triple Rhymes	p. 620
Accented Vowel A Sounds	p. 620
Accented Vowel E Sounds	p. 639
Accented Vowel I Sounds	p. 655
Accented Vowel O Sounds	p. 674
Accented Vowel U Sounds	p. 696
Sources	p. 705
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