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Tables of Contents for Words to Rhyme With
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
``You'd Be a Poet, but You Hear It's Tough?''
iv
Author's note
v
To Charles F. Dery: A Dedication
vi
Acknowledgments
vii
Foreword
x
Introduction
1
1
Rhythm and meter
2
2
Rhyme
4
3
The stanza
7
3
The metric line
10
8
Forms of lyric verse
18
19
Sonnet
18
1
Shakespearean sonnet
19
1
Ottava rima
19
1
Terza rima
19
1
Rhyming sestina
20
1
Ballade
21
1
Ballade with double refrain
22
1
Chant royal
23
2
Triolet
25
1
Rondel
25
1
Rondelet
25
1
Roundel
26
1
Rondeau
26
1
Rondeau redouble
27
1
Villanelle
28
1
Kyrielle
29
1
Ode
30
1
Sapphic
30
1
Haiku
31
1
Pantoum
31
1
Ballad
32
1
Venus and Adonis stanza
33
1
Spenserian stanza
33
1
Elegy
33
1
Limerick
34
1
Clerihew
34
1
Double dactyl
35
1
Chain verse
35
1
Epigram
36
1
Word play in rhyme
37
13
Procrustean (impossible) rhyme
37
1
Mosaic rhyme
37
1
Anagram verse
38
1
Doublet
39
1
Ormonym
39
1
Homonym couplet
39
1
ESPYramids
40
1
Pangrammic couplet
40
1
Univocalic verse
41
1
Lipogrammatic verse
41
1
Acrostic verse
41
1
Limerick with palindromic verse
42
1
Abbreviation verse
43
1
Digital verse
43
1
Alphabetic verse
43
1
Parthenogenetic verse
44
1
Symbols and signs
45
1
Acronymic verse
46
1
Grammar verse
47
2
Macaronic verse
49
1
Caution: identicals do not rhyme
50
3
How to use the list of rhyming words
53
6
Single rhymes, with stress on the last syllables
59
120
Double rhymes, with stress on the next to the last syllable
179
244
Triple rhymes, with stress on the second syllable before the last
423
128
The glossary
551
1
How Dreka's blotting-case fathered a glossary
551
3
How to use the glossary
554
1
Pronunciation key
554
93
Appendix A: Meaning of the number keys
647
1
Appendix B: Additional words ending in -mancy
648
1
Appendix C: Additional words ending in -mania
649
2
Appendix D: Additional words ending in -phobia
651
4
Index of first lines
655
2
Overlooked rhymes
657
4
Further thoughts on rhyme
661
12
Quotations on rhyme, rhythm, and poetry
673