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The Complete Rhyming Dictionary - Revised<br />
including<br />
The Poet's Craft Book<br />
Edited by Clement Wood<br />
Revised by Ronald J.Bogus<br />
Published by<br />
Dell Publishing<br />
<br />
The desire to write poetry, or at least acceptable verse, is almost universal.<br />
The achievement of this desire may be gained by anyone,<br />
without excessive effort. Almost everyone, at some stage of his or her<br />
life, has yielded to the seductive siren, and has done his or her best to<br />
write poetry. An adequate craftbook on versification is a necessity,<br />
when the urge becomes unconquerable.<br />
<br />
CONTENTS<br />
<br />
THE POET'S CRAFT BOOK<br />
I. POETRY AND VERSIFICATION 3<br />
Poetry and Verse, 3<br />
Poetry in Human Affairs, 4<br />
The Poet's Equipment, 5<br />
Poetic Greatness, 5<br />
How Poems Come, 6<br />
Originality in Poetry, 7<br />
II. THE TECHNIQUE OF VERSIFICATION: RHYTHM . . . 9<br />
Accent and Rhythm, 9<br />
Meter and Metric Feet, 11<br />
Iambic Verse, 13<br />
Trochaic Verse, 16<br />
Anapestic Verse, 18<br />
Dactylic Verse, 19<br />
Variations in Metric Verse, 20<br />
Accent Pattern Instead of Metric, 22<br />
Blank Verse and Free Verse, 23<br />
Line Length in Verse, 25<br />
Important Classical Terms for Poetic Devices, 26<br />
III. THE TECHNIQUE OF VERSIFICATION: RHYME 29<br />
Correct and Incorrect Rhyme, 29<br />
Function and Types of Rhyme, 33<br />
Undesirable Rhymes, 36<br />
Alliteration, 37<br />
Assonance, 38<br />
Consonance, 38<br />
Your Mental Rhyming Dictionary, 40<br />
IV. STANZA-PATTERNS 44<br />
The Couplet, 44<br />
The Triplet or Tercet, 45<br />
The Quatrain, 46<br />
Stanzas of More Than Four Lines, 48<br />
Certain Other Stanzas, 50<br />
Sapphics and Other Classic Forms, 53<br />
Indentation, 56<br />
V. DIVISIONS OF POETRY 59<br />
Narrative Poetry: Epic, Metrical Romance, Tale,<br />
Ballad, 59<br />
Dramatic Poetry, 62<br />
Lyric Poetry: Ode, Elegy, Pastoral, 62<br />
The Simple Lyric: The Song, 64<br />
The Sonnet, 65<br />
VI.THE FRENCH FORMS, LIGHT AND HUMOROUS<br />
VERSE 70<br />
Formal and Light Verse, 70<br />
Rules of the Fixed Verse Forms, 72<br />
The Ballade Family, 72<br />
Chain Verse, 79<br />
The Kyrielle, 80<br />
The Pantoum, 80<br />
The Triolet, 81<br />
The Rondel, Rondeau and Roundel Family, 83<br />
The Sestina, 89<br />
The Villanelle, 92<br />
The Lai and the Virelai, 93<br />
The Limerick, 95<br />
Little Willies, 98<br />
Light Verse in English, 99<br />
VII. POETRY AND TECHNIQUE 103<br />
The Vocabulary of Poetry, 103<br />
On Translating Poetry, 108<br />
Exercises in Versification, 111<br />
VIII. THE COMPLETE RHYMING DICTIONARY ,. 112<br />
What Rhyme Is, 112<br />
The Vowel Sounds, 112<br />
The Consonant Sounds, 114<br />
Sound Does Not Depend on Spelling, 115<br />
This Dictionary Makes Consonance Accurate, 116<br />
THE DICTIONARY OF RHYMING WORDS<br />
I. MONOSYLLABLES AND WORDS ACCENTED ON THE<br />
LAST SYLLABLE: MASCULINE RHYMES: SINGLE<br />
RHYMES 121<br />
Accented Vowel A Sounds, 121<br />
Accented Vowel E Sounds, 164<br />
Accented Vowel I Sounds, 209<br />
Accented Vowel O Sounds, 247<br />
Accented Vowel U Sounds, 280<br />
II. WORDS ACCENTED ON THE SYLLABLE<br />
BEFORE THE LAST: PENULTS; FEMININE RHYMES;<br />
DOUBLE RHYMES 307<br />
Accented Vowel A Sounds, 307<br />
Accented Vowel E Sounds, 400<br />
Accented Vowel I Sounds, 456<br />
Accented Vowel O Sounds, 514<br />
Accented Vowel U Sounds, 571<br />
III. WORDS ACCENTED ON THE THIRD SYLLABLE FROM<br />
THE END: ANTEPENULTS; TRIPLE RHYMES 620<br />
Accented Vowel A Sounds, 620<br />
Accented Vowel E Sounds, 639<br />
Accented Vowel I Sounds, 655<br />
Accented Vowel O Sounds, 674<br />
Accented Vowel U Sounds, 696<br />
SOURCES, 705
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