The Word Rhythm Dictionary: A Resource for Writers, Rappers, Poets and Lyricists

After my many years’ association with Reference Reviews, I really thought I had seen it all: dictionaries on just about every subject under the sun, rhyming dictionaries, picture dictionaries, reverse dictionaries, historical dictionaries and all the rest. Surely there is no room for anything new on top of those? Wrong as it turns out. The Introduction to this book is headed “A new kind of dictionary” and is certainly something I have never seen attempted before. Studies of the rhythm of prose or poetry in literary works are not uncommon: I recall on my first visit to Paris on...