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

Fabulous rhyming dictionary- GREAT for songwriters, poets, etc. This was a required reading to go in tandem with a Berklee music course on song writing. For HEAVY USERS: The paperback binding is poor and pages WILL BECOME UNGLUED. I spiral bound this book at a third party store, and there is NOT enough margin for spiral binding (shown in photos). I will re-order the school/library binding version to see if it's any better. do NOT get your copy spiral bound if you want to lose words!! Please make a spiral bound version of this wonderful dictionary!!!

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.

This book should be everybody's home that is a songwriter poetry

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.

This is very useful, although I usually find that I have to find the rhymes I want without the help of a dictionary. But the format is much more useful than most: phonetic syllables to find rhymes for; words (with the proper accented syllable) in lists for "answers." It takes a minute, if you're used to word-for-word rhyming dictionaries, to catch on, but the tenth time you can't find the damn rhyme you have to have you'll be used to the system and if it's not here, revise previous lines. Having dealt with poetry for 40+ years, I didn't bother checking out the added, whatever it is at the front of the book, but you'll quickly turn, like any habitual dictionary user, to within a few pages of what you need. I recommend it as highly as any I've seen. Online dictionaries may be a bit faster, but this is much more complete, and geared to poetry, not the lyrics of adolescent music. My copy feels like it's been around a long time, but who cares? So have I.

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.

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.

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.

Thankful for this ready rhyme reckoner

Es una guía muy completa que nos está ayudando a la hora de escribir canciones. Al ser un libro de bolsillo lo puedes llevar a todos lados.

Un condensé de mots et les rimes d'après leur son bien anglais, utile pour toute création de paroles musicales, à vrai dire, l'indispensable. Pour moi, pas assez vaste dans la richesse du langage. Mais à nous d'inventer les mots, en anglais, tout est permis, et les néologismes ça sonne bien! c'est la sonorité et rythme avant tout, qui compte.

Incredibly daunting at first. It's a struggle to find a single word. It was recommended by Pat Pattison, who teaches lyric writing at Berklee. This is ideal for using with different methods that he mentions in his books. This is the ideal dictionary if you're aware of those methods. If you're serious about poetry and writing lyrics then it's worth putting the effort in because the results are so much better. There's a learning curve and you've got to expect that. At first, I was confused. Now, I love it.

A good reference for poets and would be poets