poetry

Andrew G. Hammond drew-vnkfHpbZfesgsBAKwltoeQ at public.gmane.org
Sun Oct 5 07:09:29 UTC 2003


Neither does it take into account half rhymes or phrasal rhymes.

Andy Jack wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 05:15:52PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
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>>      Use grep, anchored at the end of the word, to seach for the part
>>      of the word you want to match:
>>
>>grep ould$ /usr/share/dict/UKACD15a.TXT
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>This won't always work of course, because "would" rhymes with "wood"
>(false negative), and "wood" doesn't rhyme with "food" (false positve).
>Poetic license might be okay with food and wood.
>
>And what rhymes with "orange" anyway?
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