The Complete Rhyming Dictionary: Updated and Expanded

by Clement Wood

Overview

The essential handbook for songwriters, poets, students, teachers, speechmakers, and members of the performing arts

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
• More rhymes than any other book
• Sight, vowel, consonant, and one-, two-, and three-syllable rhymes
• Proper names, slang, and scientific words
• Guide to techniques and forms of poetry

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780440212058
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/02/1992
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	720
Product dimensions:	4.15(w) x 6.87(h) x 1.14(d)

About the Author

Clement Wood (1888–1950) was a highly acclaimed American poet, critic, and poetry teacher. His poem “The Glory Road” was made famous in a song by Lawrence Tibbett. His other writing includes The Craft of Poetry and Hunters of Heaven.

Table of Contents

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