When we were younger, Alan and I used Clement Wood's invaluable rhyme dictionary. Unfortunately, it has now been rewritten and reissued by the appropriately named Ronald Bogus. So those of you in search of a good one, search the used book stores. I didn't pass this question on to Mr. Hecht, because the answer seems obvious. If you seek slant rhymes for omen, look up women, shaman, semen, daimon, lemon, etc. Alan once asked Dick Wilbur if he employed a rhyme dictionary, and he ruefully grinned and confessed: "No, I'm afraid that after all this time I AM a rhyme dictionary." I suspect that Mr. Hecht would respond in like fashion.
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