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Words to rhyme with : for poets and song writers / Willard R. Espy.
LIBRA - Special PE1519 .E87 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Espy, Willard R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhyme--Dictionaries.
- English language.
- English language--Rhyme.
- English language--Versification.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Espy, Willard R. (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 656 pages ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Facts on File Publications, [1986]
- Contents:
- When people tell you writing verse is tough
- Rhythm and meter
- Enjambment
- Rhyme
- The Stanza
- The Metric line
- Forms of lyric verse
- Sonnet
- Shakespearean sonnet
- Ottava rima
- Terza rima
- Rhyming sestina
- Ballade
- Ballade with double refrain
- Chant royal
- Triolet
- Rondel
- Rondelet
- Rondelel
- Rondeau
- Rondeau redoublé
- Villanelle
- Kyrielle
- Ode
- Sapphic
- Haiku
- Pantoum
- Ballad
- Venus and Adonis stanza
- Spenserian stanza
- Elegy
- Limerick
- Clerihew
- Double dactyl
- Chain verse
- Epigram
- Word play in rhyme
- Procrustian (impossible) rhyme
- Mosaic rhyme
- Anagram verse
- Doublet
- Ormonym
- Homonym couplet
- ESPYramids
- Pangrammic couplet
- Univocalic verse
- Lipogrammatic verse
- Acrostic verse
- Limerick and palindromic verse
- Abbreviation verse
- Digital verse
- Alphabetic verse
- Parthenogenetic verse
- Symbols and signs
- Acronymic verse
- Grammar verse
- Macaronic verse
- Caution: identicals do not rhyme
- How to use the list of rhyming words
- Single rhymes, with stress on the last syllables
- Double rhymes, with stress on the next to last syllable
- Triple rhymes, with stress on the second syllable before the last
- How Dreka's blotting case fathered a glossary
- Meaning of the number keys
- Additional words ending in -mancy
- Additional words ending in -mania
- Additional words ending in -phobia.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy inscribed by the author: "For the Coffee Home Club - Warmly - Willard R. Espy. 6 November 1986".
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0816012377
- 9780816012374
- OCLC:
- 13008421
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