Tools for Poets - Rhyming dictionaries & other references
Need a rhyming word for the line you’re working on? The outline for a poetic form you want to try? We’ve selected links to the online tools you need when you’re polishing a poem.
Alcor Rhyming DictionariesAlcor is a small Australian firm that has created rhyming dictionaries in 20 languages, from Afrikaans to Yiddish, all of which you can try online.
AnalogX RhymeThere are lots of system & music tools at AnalogX, including this free, downloadable Windows program which will suggest rhymes for any of 100,000 words.
Ansme.com Rhyming DictionaryThe dictionaries at Ansme.com will give you rhyming words sorted according to number of syllables, definitions, words with similar sound patterns, antonyms, synonyms & other relations among words, or translations of single words.
Glossary of Poetic FormsIf you’re into sonnets or pantoums, haiku or limericks, visit our glossary, which is stocked with concise definitions of various kinds of formal poetries, with links for further reading.
Visual ThesaurusThe
Visual Thesaurus offers the same browsing pleasures as
Roget’s, but rather than flipping pages to follow the trails of related words, you watch the words dance on your screen & explore the branching linguistic paths by clicking. (This is a commercial site, intended to sell subscriptions, but you can try out the online edition for free.)
Online Rhyming DictionaryWriteExpress would like to sell you the CD version of their rhyming dictionary, but will let you use their online rhymer free. Bookmark this page for the next time you are stumped for the right rhyme: end rhymes, beginning rhymes, double or triple rhymes are all here.
clipped from: poetry.about.com