I use Merriam-Webster's Rhyming Dictionary a lot. With a paper copy, you can look at other end-sounds on the same page to get cool partial rhymes. Rhymezone.com is useful in a pinch, but leads me astray into obscure and meaningless phonemes as often as it helps - and is noticeably lacking a lot of words. And both of them are evil in that, if you use them long enough, you will try to rhyme every word in a poem with every other. One particularly egregious instance in my recent memory would be an attempted rhyming once of watching, blotchy, debauching, fibonacci, hibatchi, vivace, swatches, (the) Koches, 'en pace', cocyx, and so on - after which I found myself laid out for three days with a strained lumbar, a clearer conception of my own frailty, and no idea what the poem was about. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. You'll notice though that this poem (http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.jsp?id=80478)only has five rhyming sounds, and this one (http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.jsp?id=79687) only has four if you count partial rhymes like 'Carly' and 'early' as one.

Your rhyming is so sophisticated it's almost unnoticable. I'm envious. I must study it and learn. Do you use a rhyming dictionary or other resource? Can you recommend one, hopefully with an electronic version? (I'm mostly paperless these days. Dictionary.com has changed my life).

Your rhyming is so sophisticated it's almost unnoticable. I'm envious. I must study it and learn. Do you use a rhyming dictionary or other resource? Can you recommend one, hopefully with an electronic version? (I'm mostly paperless these days. Dictionary.com has changed my life).

The idea of you scoring 98 on an IQ test is incredibly amusing. Were you looking for inadvertent correlations between the question and "wrong" answers, that the question-makers were unaware of? That's always fun, especially if you take the time to scribble in an explanation for your choices.

You still don't fucking get it. Your IQ is about 85-95. YOU LIED WHEN YOU SAID IT WAS 122 (or whatever). How convenient that you've lost your certificate. I had my IQ tested by PROFESSIONALS, and it came out as 98. I then spent three years studying and took the test again. I scored 98 again, but the PROFESSIONALS supervising the test said I had an effective IQ of 106, which is HIGHER than yours. SO JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!11

lol.

'This Is Me' by crystal lane swift

Is there a poem about Ware-Pigs here?

I give you both much more credit than that. Besides, you can comment on how I rhymed gentle with dental, Oriental, sentimental, regimental and rental in this one (and also "bit it" with "it'd"). I'm quite proud of that. As far as line breaks go, I'm with Frost with his ideas on free verse: I wouldn't begin to know what to write if I didn't have a structure to work in. I'm currently trying to move away from rigid iambic or anapestic whatevermeter to something still rhymed but more free-flowing (with smoother, more natural diction,) and much of the stuff I've posted on the site is my first few awkward attempts. So I'd be really interested in hearing from either of you how the flow works, where it doesn't and so forth. You both (or all three) have excellent ears for rhythm, I can tell, and could help me a lot in that respect.

I concur with -=Dark_Angel=- (I can't believe I actually just took the time and effort to type that out accurately for the crotchety old maggot). Well, I don't care about Ware-Pigs, but it is certainly easier to toss off a vote for the simpler stuff or the humorous/naughty stuff.

I have no idea how to vote on your work. If you wrote a rhyming piece about a Ware-Pig, or about a man who goes for an entire year without wiping his bum, or about a dysfunctional (but terrifyingly powerful) Loom who naughtily secretes all its oils causing the weavlings emerge as mere husks, then I'd know what I was talking about. But when it comes to your poemes, I can mostly tell they're well written in the sense that you know the difference between "you're" and "your", or "it's" and "its", and that they don't sound like they were oozed onto the page by a drugged leper, but apart from that my ignorance would shock e'en the most foul smelling of peasantlings. In non-rhyming free verse, most line breaks look arbitrary to me. Maybe it's because I am thinly read. You could ask the other -=Dark_Angel=-, who is widely read, but I fear it could be some time before he replies - yesterday he had to see the College nurse because... because it happened again.

Of course - I know the ranking is crap, and biased (at least by me) towards teenies who need encouraging. But I'm still a little sad that -=Dark_Angel=- doesn't vote on my poems anymore - not even to give them his trademark undeserved 10s.

I get the sense that Nance has a better than average eye for technique but somewhat rigid ideas what constitutes suitable subjects for poetry. I thought this was wry and funny and vivid, and it rings quite true, but perhaps only if you've spent time being responsible for toddlers, and been self-aware enough to see yourself overreacting.

you have to use unique email addresses.

?? You aren't seriously paying attention to the votes, are you? With the Cristals & SuburbanWannabeePsychos anonymously spraying teenage toilet pomes with tens? Pomeranker is uncensored and unmoderated, which is in general a very good thing, but ya gotta sort the pomes and posters into levels for yourself, and ignore or be amused by or have a little fun ranting against the shit. But don't delete your pomes. The worst I could imagine you posting would be more satisfying to read than the bulk of what's on the "best" list. The votes are level-sorted too. If you are given an 8 and one of the kids who seems to be genuinely trying to learn posts something a little better than usual and is given a 9, you don't actually believe the world at large, or at least the audience worth caring about, thinks your pome is "worse" in an absolute sense, do you? Besides more than half the voting going on is revenge voting from the angst-ridden teenagers (or the house megalomaniac) flipping out because you didn't buy their opus as an exemplification of immaculate genius.