Alicia, that's the most useful discussion of "rime" I have ever seen. I love what you said about rhyming phrases, not words, and about the letter "e" (funny and to the point). Your insight about problems coming in clusters is also on the money. Thanks so much!
I sometimes use riming dictionaries, particularly if I take on a form like a villanelle, but I agree with you that most riming dictionaries do not list all rhymes (and they certainly don't help out with slant rhymes or inventive multi-word rhymes). Glimpsing at the riming dictionary, however, (a) reassures me that I've already thought of all the rhymes that could be useful (as is usually the case), and (b) somehow stimulates me to think of rhymes that aren't in the rhyming dictionary.
Now that I write on a computer that's always connected to the internet, I sometimes switch between my word processor window and the window for rhymezone.com. I suspect that rhymezone.com is far from the best rhyming dictionary around, but it's the one I've fallen in the habit of using and it's good enough for my very limited purposes.
Thanks again for your wonderful insights!
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