rhymes.txt

[marnanel]

I made this a while ago, but I thought I'd upload it today:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~tthurman/rhymes.txt

The purpose is explained by the header:

# Words which appear in this list must be
# - words which have at least three plausible English rhymes
# (e.g. "pint" is not in the list)
# - words which can fit into iambic verse. In other words,
# they must consist of alternating stressed and unstressed
# syllables.
# Each row has three fields, separated by spaces. The first
# is the word. The absolute value of the second is the number
# of syllables in the word. The absolute value of the third
# is a unique code for the rhyme. All words with the
# same value in the rhyme code will rhyme with one another.
#
# 0 and -1 are not used as syllable counts. A monosyllabic word
# has a syllable count of 1.
#
# Iff the syllable count is negative, the word begins on an unstressed
# syllable. Iff the rhyme code is negative, the word ends on an
# unstressed syllable. Note that positive rhyme codes will not usually
# rhyme with negative in English poetry.
#
# Examples:
# calibration 4 -67
# is stressed as "CA li BRA tion"
# and rhymes with other words with rhyme code -67, such as:
# administration -5 -67

This will be useful for poets interested in computational linguistics, and probably not anybody else.