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Webster's New World Rhyming Dictionary: Clement Wood's Updated This is the rhyming dictionary I turn to first. It's an update to Clement Wood's classic 1943 reference. The phonetic distribution of...
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**[Webster's New World Rhyming Dictionary: Clement Wood's Updated](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0028626265)** This is the rhyming dictionary I turn to first. It's an update to [Clement Wood's classic 1943 reference](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0440212057). The phonetic distribution of words took me a while to learn, but it's a great, fast system once you get a feel for it. My only complaint about this update is that it's too large to fit in a guitar case. (I'm comparing it to my paperback of the original Clement Wood.) Part I of this book is the rhyming dictionary itself. Part II is titled "Guidelines for Effective Rhyme", and the first chapter is the closest I've seen to an Elements of Style for poets and lyricists. Later chapters are a little dry, but they covers the history of rhyme forms, and definitions of stanza forms. Clement Wood could have learned to "omit needless words" here, but it is a good reference.
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