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The Complete Rhyming Dictionary: Including The Poet's Craft Book

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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 Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dell


Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 1, 1992


Edition ‏ : ‎ Updated,Expanded


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 720 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0440212057


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 58


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.15 x 1.14 x 6.87 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #13,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #6 in English Dictionaries & Thesauruses #12 in Vocabulary Books #22 in Dictionaries (Books)


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    • Buy it!
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Must buy!!!
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2025 by Ilazaya Black
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2025 by David Pitts
    • Looks Great
Format: Mass Market Paperback
This looks amazing, it is a gift for a friend who writes poetry. Just be careful when slitting open or cutting the package open since I inadvertently cut the cover of this book so it won’t be a very nice looking gift.
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2025 by E. S.
    • Great for consonant rhymes, but not vowel rhymes
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Note- this book is organized by rhyme length (single double or triple), then by beginning vowel letters a-u (not by actual vowel sound, which varies a lot even for one letter), then by consonant sounds. Here is the significance: Positive - it's very thorough. Its organization is great if you use a lot of consonance rhymes (consonant sounds after stressed syllables are the same but vowel sounds are different). The book itself says "this dictionary makes consonance accurate". Negative - most songs use 95% vowel rhymes (assonance). For example: "man" and "hand". This book separates these words with other sections in between, since -AHN, -ANCH, and -AUNCHD all come before -AND. Other examples put vowel rhymes even further apart. Therefore, I can't recommend this if you're looking for a single rhyming dictionary that will give you everything you need for songs. I think most writers have more than one anyway. It would be five stars, except I wish they would be more clear about what type of rhyme to use it for, or offer a preview here. I personally can't really use it, so bummer. To be fair, any way they organized it would make one group unhappy, so if you are a poet who likes great consonance, this is for you. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2021 by Daniel
    • Reordered another after the 1st one was given away,
Format: Mass Market Paperback
My college age son is taking another poetry class and finds this book helpful. He's on his second copy as he gave the first away. When he told me he needed a replacement he asked for this specific one. Yeah for Amazon's order history it helped a lot in reordering the right one.
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2025 by Donna Rosmaier
    • Why this dictionary? And 1943 Edition Vs Modern Edition
Format: Mass Market Paperback
As of this writing, (2016), this dictionary is recommended for songwriters by instructor Pat Pattison over others, including online dictionaries, as it: divides rhymes into Masculine, Feminine,and three-syllable rhymnes, is organized phonetically by vowel sound, and it italicizes archaic words. 1943 Edition Vs Modern Edition breakdown There has been controversy going back years on this board about which edition you should get of this book, the modern one or the 1943 edition. I've bought both of them because of the controversy and I'll lay out the differences 1) the 1943 separates out eat rhyme by groups so that under A (as in bay) you have: vowel: eye, cou-tru-ri-er etc... b: bay, etc... br: bray, etc.. ... the new edition lays them out altogether listed like so affray agley airway .... The old edition makes it easier to separate identities - words that are not true rhymes because the last syllable in both begins with the same consonant. Each page actually warns to only pick one from each group. How big of a matter this is is a personal choice, but I like the old way. Also the new edition prints one word per line as above (in four columns) whereas the old edition as above lists several words per line in two columns. So I believe the older edition has fewer words per page despite the smaller size of my hardback editions. Also, the older edition breaks words by syllables with accents. Very important. 2) The old edition obviously doesn't have newer words in it. 3) The old edition has a course in verification in the back that 90 pages long and is very good. 4) As from that, the text of the old and new editions cover roughly the same material, re-written in the new edition. So I think the old edition is definitely preferable to me though the new one is very useful if you don't want to spend the money to the older one. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2016 by HappyRon
    • More of a high level classroom education book
Format: Mass Market Paperback
I was expecting a dictionary or Thesaurus type of book of word comparisons I could use to help write music. What you get in this book is a highly educated description of how to create rhyme words. Not what I was looking for but probably perfect for the pure at heart who know, or want to know poetry.
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024 by Jan Figone
    • Arrived quickly in new condition.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Use the book for writing songs and poetry.
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2025 by mike v.

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