Words to Rhyme With: For Poets and Songwriters (The Facts on File Writer's Library) - Softcover

Espy, Willard R.; Phillips, Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816043132 ISBN 13: 9780816043132

Publisher: Facts on File, 2001

Synopsis

Lists more than 80,000 rhyming words, including single, double, and triple rhymes, and offers information on rhyme schemes, meter, and poetic forms.

About this title

From Library Journal

This rhyming dictionary includes the author's primer of prosody, illustrated with examples from Espy's own comic verse. His explanation of forms ranges from the essentials of iambic pentameter to the obscurities of acronymic and grammar verse. The heart of the book is a rhyming dictionary organized phonetically by syllables into three sections: words rhyming on the last, the penultimate, and the antepenultimate syllable. Over 80,000 words are included, and though it will take a little practice to use, writers of rhyming lyrics and verse should be quite satisfied with this. The glossary conveniently defines the obscure words cited, and appendixes list further words with common endings; the index is to the first lines of Espy's illustrative verses. This is truly an impressive compilation. Stephen H. Cape, Indiana Univ. Lib., Bloomington
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

.,."hold[s] a very special place in the hearts of word lovers everywhere...Recommended..."

Edition details

• Publisher: Facts on File
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816043132
• ISBN 13: 9780816043132
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 676