Words To Rhyme With Willard Espy's Words to Rhyme With is the ultimate collection of rhyming words and technique from a master of wordplay. This essential comprehensive resource for poets and songwriters is back in print with expanded material on rhyming and word usage.
Containing more than 80,000 words, both common and obscure, and divided into single, double, and triple rhyme, Words to Rhyme With is also an expert guide to poetic technique. Accompanying each section are entertaining short verses by Espy that illustrate the craft of rhyme and rhythm. Other features include
A "Primer of Prosody" that focuses on the forms of lyric verse and wordplay - the sonnet, villanelle, ballad, limerick, anagram verse, and much more-with examples for each.
New advice on expanded forms of rhyme, with examples and quotations by notable poets.
A glossary of lesser-known words that can be used to make unusual and unique rhymes.
A list of rhymes "overlooked" in the first edition.
Details of Words To Rhyme With Title: Words To Rhyme With
Author: Willard Espy, Louis Phillips
ISBN: 8176499587
ISBN-13: 9788176499583
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2005
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Special Priced Titles
Language: English