Saturday, May 02, 2009

his mukkil oobin laagh

The Bloomsbury Rhyming Dictionary is "an essential research tool" that no "poet or lyricist" should be without. The main pleasure is derived from the found poems which emerge from the lists of rhyming words. Try this one, which we call "Night on the Town":
frolic
shambolic
hyperbolic
melancholic
[...] We close the Bloomsbury Rhyming Dictionary (£8.99) with a cautionary tale of the casting-couch:
starlet
varlet
scarlet
harlot
J.C., "NB", TLS, March 28 2008, p. 36

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