kennethreitz 42d48b2c42 Sub-word rhyme highlighting: dim word fill + bright tail underline
Whole rhyming word fills dimly; a bright underline marks just the
rhyming part (tonight -> under 'ight'), so the precise interlock shows
without the fill looking ragged when the phoneme->letter guess is a
letter off. Removed 'scheme' from the toolbar readout.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-08 03:12:20 -04:00

RhymePad

A scratchpad for poets & rappers. Write in the pad; rhymes are detected phonetically (CMU Pronouncing Dictionary) and color-coded as you type — end rhymes, internal rhymes, and slant rhymes included. Comes with a rhyme/synonym lookup, draggable stanza reordering, and synthesized beats with adjustable tempo.

Run

$ uv run uvicorn app:app --reload

Then open http://127.0.0.1:8000.

How rhyme detection works

  • Every word is mapped to its CMU phonemes (pronouncing), with lyric-friendly fallbacks (runnin'running, possessives, and a spelling heuristic for made-up words).
  • Perfect rhymes share everything from the last stressed vowel on (tonight / light / flightAY T). These are matched anywhere in a line — that's the internal rhyme detection.
  • Slant rhymes share just the vowel sounds from the last stressed vowel (hold / coal). Applied to line endings that didn't find a perfect match.
  • Same color = same sound. Underline = line-ending rhyme (the stanza's a/b/a/b scheme); soft glow only = internal rhyme.

API

  • POST /api/analyze {"text": "..."} → token spans, rhyme groups, per-stanza schemes, per-line meter
  • GET /api/lookup?word=light&mode=rhyme|near|syn → frequency-ranked rhymes / near rhymes (by syllable count) and WordNet synonyms (by part of speech)

Dictionary definitions in the UI come from the free dictionaryapi.dev; everything else is served locally.

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