The essential handbook for songwriters, poets, students, teachers, speechmakers, and members of the performing arts

This simple-to-use, exceptionally complete reference work has been updated, expanded and redesigned to meet the needs of today's most demanding wordsmiths. Included here are:

• Over 10,000 new entries—over 60,000 in all

• More rhymes than any other book

• Sight, vowel, consonant, and one-, two-, and three-syllable rhymes

• Proper names, slang, and scientific words

• Guide to techniques and forms of poetry