He is a person of deadly critical faculties, sometimes loosely leashed a few appreciative words written now may save me from having to read a twenty-page letter, with footnotes, listing just the more egregious errors he has uncovered in his first half-hour with Words to Rhyme With. In the example he described most recently, a young woman turns down his offer of a canoe ride: “I hear,” she explains, “that you are a big tipper.” That Charles, in his eighties, continues to pun even when asleep is itself enough to justify this dedication, but I have a defensive reason for it as well. Dery admits to dreaming regularly in puns. Ome sleepers, myself included, occasionally dream in color but of my acquaintance, only Charles F. They should also challenge you to prove that at least you can rhyme better than that. They should serve to remind you that one need not be a Poet with a capital P to have a capital time putting rhymes together. They are jingles-nominies- doggerel-amphigories. Most of those in the early chapters have been published before (some appear here in slightly modified form) most of those in the rhyming list, and I think all those in the glossary, were written specially for this book. With the exception of one borrowed quatrain from the Latin and a contributed verse consisting of lines, all the verses are my own.
In this book I resurrect no moth-eaten old lines from such hasbeens as Shakespeare or Milton. T is not unusual for the writers of handbooks like this one to slip in a few verses of their own making. And poets with important things to say Don’t write Important Poems anyway. They only lie around to spoil the sport- They’re potholes on the road to the sublime. Sack scansion, then-and grammar, sense, and rhyme. For giggles, gauds like pseudoantidisestablishment fulfill the purpose well But when you go for guts, the big words miss: Trade “pandemonic regions” in for “hell.”. Just be strict about one rule: No high-flown words, unless your aim is fluff The hard thought needs the naked syllable. You’d be a poet, but you hear it’s tough? No problem. You’d Be a Poet, But You Hear It’s Tough? Appendix D: Additional Words Ending in -phobia. 670Īppendix C: Additional Words Ending in -mania. 669 Appendix B: Additional Words Ending in -mancy. 535 Appendix A: Meaning of the Number Keys. 533 To Use the Glossary Effectively, Remember That. 533 How Dreka’s Blotting-Case Fathered a Glossary. 46 Step 3: Determine the Sound Pattern That Follows the Stressed Syllable of Your Source Word. 45 Step 2: Determine the Vowel Sound Your Rhyme Begins With. 45 Step 1: Determine the Sort of Rhyme You Need. You’d Be a Poet, But You Hear It’s Tough?. You can find Facts On File on the World Wide Web at Cover design by Cathy Rincon Text design adapted by James Scotto-Lavino VB FOF 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America This book is printed on acid-free paper. Please call our Special Sales Department in New York at 212/967-8800 or 800/322-8755. PE1519.E87 2006 423'.1-dc22 2005051122 Facts On File books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations, institutions, or sales promotions. Words to rhyme with: a rhyming dictionary: including a primer of prosody, a list of more than 80,000 words that rhyme, a glossary defining 9,000 of the more eccentric rhyming words, and a variety of exemplary verses, one of which does not rhyme at all / Willard R.
An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Espy, Willard R. For information contact: Facts On File, Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. Espy Original edition copyright © 1986 by Willard R. WORDS TO RHYME WITH, A Rhyming Dictionary, Third Edition Third edition copyright © 2006 by Louise M. Including A Primer of Prosody 9 A List of More Than 80,000 Words That Rhyme 9 A Glossary Defining 9,000 of the More Eccentric Rhyming Words 9 And a Variety of Exemplary Verses, One of Which Does Not Rhyme at All
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