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LIBRARY 150 SPRING 2000

• Janet Johnson
• Week 5

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Words to Rhyme WithFor Poets and Song Writers

• By Willard R. Espy
• REF 423.1 ESP

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PUBLISHED

• Book Format
• Facts on File, Inc.
• New York
• C1986
• 660 pages

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CONTENTS

• Rhyme
• The Stanza
• The Metric Line
• Forms of Lyric Verse
• Word Play in Rhyme
• Caution identicals do not rhyme
• How to use the list of rhyming words

• Single rhymes, with stress on the last syllables
• Double rhymes, with stress on the next to last
  syllable
• Triple rhymes, with stress on the second to last
  syllable

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SCOPE

• Includes A Primer of Prosody More than 80,000
  Words That Rhyme
• A Glossary Defining 9,000 of the More Eccentric
  Rhyming Words A Variety of Exemplary Verses, One
  of which Does Not Rhyme at All

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PURPOSE

• Used for literature classes, especially for
  writing poetry
• Music, for lyrics

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SPECIAL

• Includes a 100 plus page Primer of Prosody, that
  illuminates clearly and entertainingly, such
  essentials of poetic technique as rhyme scheme,
  meter, and the various poetic forms
• Has 200 examples of Willard Espys own light
  verse, to illustrate the points of the text

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AUTHOR

• Willard R. Espy
• One of the best-known wordsmiths
• Widely published, some of which includeAn
  Almanac of Words at Play, The Garden of
  Eloquence, Have a Word on Me, Say it My Way, and
  Oysterville

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• Well put together
• Need to read section on how to use first or can
  be confusing
• Lots of information
• Gives wonderful examples of what the forms of
  verse are

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• Students of literature will find this very useful
  for such things as
• What are forms of lyric verse?
• Helpful hints for writing poetry
• How to use words in rhyme