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Updates the visual-language and engine descriptions to match what shipped (color=family, brightness=strength, near-miss radar, hover, PNG export, taste-tuned precision, paren/annotation handling), drops removed features (stanza reordering, dictionary definitions), adds license + live URL. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# RhymePad
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A scratchpad for poets & rappers that does **live phonetic rhyme
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analysis** of whatever you're writing. Type or paste lyrics into the pad
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and the rhyme structure is color-coded as you type — end rhymes,
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**internal rhymes**, slant rhymes, multisyllabic and multi-word rhymes —
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using the actual *sounds* (CMU Pronouncing Dictionary + a g2p phoneme
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fallback), not the spelling.
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Yes, it knows **orange** rhymes with **door hinge**.
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Live at <https://rhymepad.org>.
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## Run
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```console
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$ uv run uvicorn app:app --reload
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```
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Then open <http://127.0.0.1:8000>.
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## The visual language
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- **Color = which sound.** Every rhyme family gets its own hue.
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- **Brightness = rhyme strength, per word.** Perfect rhymes blaze, slant
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rhymes sit back, consonance fainter still — and within a family the
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perfect anchors out-glow the loose slant attachments.
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- **A faint underline marks the rhyming tail** of a word (under `ight`
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in `tonight`), so you see exactly *where* the rhyme lands.
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- **Gray fill = a dead line ending** that rhymes nothing.
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- **Dotted gold = a near-miss** — a dead ending that's one phoneme from
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rhyming with another ending (e.g. `hand`/`bond`). A tiny edit locks it.
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- **Hover any word** and its whole family brightens across the page.
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Toggles for **rhyme · alliteration · rhythm** (syllable-emphasis dots,
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"sheet music for your flow"). Hovering a word also names its family in
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the readout. Everything you see exports to a pixel-matching **PNG**.
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## How rhyme detection works
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Every word is mapped to its CMU phonemes (`pronouncing`), with
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lyric-friendly fallbacks (`runnin'` → `running`, possessives, made-up
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words via `g2p-en`).
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- **Perfect rhymes** share everything from the last stressed vowel on
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(`tonight` / `light` / `flight` → `AY T`). Matched *anywhere* in a
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line — that's the internal-rhyme detection.
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- **Slant rhymes** share just the vowel run (`hold` / `coal`).
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- **Multisyllabic & multi-word mosaics** — `placement of creation`,
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`orange` / `door hinge` — match across word boundaries.
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- **Consonance** catches shared vowel+coda endings (`bliss` / `exist`).
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The engine is taste-tuned toward *what a listener actually hears*:
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rhymes don't cross stanza breaks, vowel families stay local, repeated
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refrains are muted, and dialect mergers (NEAR vowel, cot-caught, nasal
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and sibilant codas) are folded in. It deliberately rejects naive
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vowel-matches — `garbage`/`javascript`, `middle`/`unavoidable`, and
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`smell like a` do *not* rhyme, even though a coarser engine would link
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them.
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`( parentheticals )` are real lyrics; inline `(ad-libs)` rhyme
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internally but never claim the line-ending slot. Lines starting with
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`#` (your notes) or `[` (section headers) are skipped.
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## API
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- `POST /api/analyze` `{"text": "..."}` → token spans, rhyme groups
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(with family strength), per-stanza schemes, per-line meter,
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alliteration, near-misses, and unanswered endings
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- `GET /api/lookup?word=light&mode=rhyme|near|syn` → frequency-ranked
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rhymes / near rhymes (by syllable count) and WordNet synonyms
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- `GET /api/word?word=...` → pronunciation, senses, homophones
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Everything is served locally — no external dictionary calls.
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## License
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ISC. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
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