Wood's Unabridged rhyming dictionary

Wood, Clement 1888-1950 (Author).

Summary: Contains rules for writing verse in three explanatory sections. Indispersable to poets, versifiers, writers of song lyrics, advertising verses, and all other forms of verse, to instructors and students of poetics, libraries, librarians, and all interested in perfecting this concentrated half of our verbal expression.

Record details

Physical Description: xv, 1040 pages ; 25 cm.
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Publisher: Cleveland ; World publishing company, 1943.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Vocabulary of poetry -- Complete formbook of poets -- Fixed forms -- Mechanics of rhyme -- Key to pronunciation -- Single rhymes (masculine rhymes) (monosyllables and words accented on the last syllable) -- Double rhymes (words accented on the syllable before the last, the penult; also called feminine rhymes) -- Triple rhymes (words accented on the antepenult, the second syllable from the last) -- Versification self-taught.