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There are plenty of rhyming dictionaries; is there such a thing as a metrical dictionary? Sometimes in fixed-form poetry, I need a word to fit a specific position in a line, and it would be really ...
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System
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2019-12-08T02:31:15Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Aaron Davies
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2019-12-08T02:31:15Z (almost 5 years ago)
There are plenty of rhyming dictionaries; is there such a thing as a metrical dictionary? Sometimes in fixed-form poetry, I need a word to fit a specific position in a line, and it would be really handy to have a database that organized words by syllable count and stress pattern, as well as rhyme. It would be useful for songwriting too. Example use case: Suppose I am looking for a word that is an anapest (three syllables, two short followed by one long, like "billionaire"). It would be great to be able to query a scansion dictionary to be given a list of them. A combined rhyme/scansion dictionary would be a killer app. So that if, let's say, I wanted (1) an anapest that (2) rhymes with "hair," I could query that, and be given a list of results (e.g. "billionaire" "debonair" "laissez-faire" etc.) Does such a thing exist?
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System
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2012-09-20T21:11:23Z (about 12 years ago)
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