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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

Updated by Orin Hargraves

WORDS TO RHYME WITH, A Rhyming Dictionary, Third Edition

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Espy, Willard R.

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. Espy.— 3rd ed. / updated by Orin Hargraves.

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ISBN 0-8160-6303-6 (acid-free paper)

1. English Language—Rhyme—Dictionaries. 2. English language—Versification. I. Hargraves, Orin. II. Title.

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Contents

You’d Be a Poet, But You Hear It’s Tough? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Author’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

To Charles F. Dery: A Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ix

Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xi

Foreword to the New Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Rhythm and Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Rhyme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

The Stanza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

The Metric Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Forms of Lyric Verse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Word Play in Rhyme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Caution: Identicals Do Not Rhyme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

How to Use the List of Rhyming Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Step 1: Determine the Sort of Rhyme You Need . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Step 2: Determine the Vowel Sound Your Rhyme

Begins With . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Step 3: Determine the Sound Pattern That Follows

the Stressed Syllable of Your Source Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Finer Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Single Rhymes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Double Rhymes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Triple Rhymes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

How Dreka’s Blotting-Case Fathered a Glossary . . . . . . . . . . 533

To Use the Glossary Effectively, Remember That . . . . . . . . . 535

Appendix A: Meaning of the Number Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

Appendix B: Additional Words Ending in - mancy . . . . . . . . . . . 670

Appendix C: Additional Words Ending in - mania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

Appendix D: Additional Words Ending in - phobia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Index of First Lines of Verses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Quotations on Rhyme, Rhythm, and Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

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