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The Complete Rhyming Dictionary: Including The Poet's Craft Book | 
 enlarge | Creators: Clement Wood, Ronald J. Bogus
Publisher: Dell Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 9715
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 720
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0440212057
Dewey Decimal Number: 031
EAN: 9780440212058
ASIN: 0440212057
Publication Date: March 1, 1992
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Product Description
A guide to finding the perfect rhyme every time includes more than ten thousand new entries; sight rhymes, vowel rhymes, and consonant rhymes; the forty-three rhymeless sounds to avoid; words with no rhymes; and more. Reprint.
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Good, but get the hardback December 28, 2008
This is a pretty good rhyming dictionary. It divides into one, two, and three syllable rhymes. There is also a very large section about writing. But don't get the paperback edition- it's too fat and narrow to be easily used.
 Easy to use, very helpful November 14, 2008
I just got this a couple days ago and can't believe how very useful it is. I had previously been using an internet rhyming website but this has so many more rhymes and near rhymes.
I find the organization system to be intuitive when writing verse. First all the one syllable rhymes are listed alphabetically by the sound you are rhyming. For example, rhymes ending in AN (adman, Afhgan,....) go before rhymes ending in AR (bar, babar) Then the two syllable rhymes are listed in the next section, ABLE going before ASHUN (like the sound in nation), then finally the three syllable rhymes are listed. It makes looking for specific rhymes very easy. (There are plenty of rhymes in between AN and AR and ABLE adn ASHUN, these are just examples.)
I don't have any other experience with rhyming dictionaries, but I can't imagine a system that is easier to use.
 Rhyming Dictionary With A Learning Curve November 9, 2008
First off - it is printed on paper, that looks and feels like old newsprint. I was looking for an easy to use dictionary much like the Webster one. I write songs and have been doing so for over 40 years. The rhymes are not separated by the number of syllables BUT by alphabetical order. Why? I use a rhyming dictionary to look up a new word rhyme, not look up a word that I already know. The worst part for me is that the dictionary lists the words in a phonetic format which means the words don't look like they do when printed. So you have to learn phonetics - that means you have to learn all the special little codes that are used to describe phonetics. That can take a few hours I guess. I have never met someone that uses this book. I bought it because I like to keep up with my craft and it is cheap enough to investigate. I really hate to give a negative review but here it is. I will say that if you already know phonetics and all the special coding they use in this book, and you want to learn about the craft of poetry, you may get something out of this book.
Great rhyming dictionary but unless one is writing Shakespeare ... October 20, 2008
... probably too much to sift just to find a few single syllable rhymes. Better to search online and narrow it down a little first.
Lots of work gone into a book like this. Lots of work!
Excellent! August 29, 2008
There's a good reason why two of our finest lyric writers, Stephen Sondheim and Sheldon Harnick, use this fine rhyming dictionary. It's perfect! It is indeed complete and very, very thorough. A great buy for any poet, lyric writer or anyone who enjoys the English language!
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