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CMU's fear (IH R) now rhymes with hear/here (IY R) as it does in every English dialect; same merge for UH/UW before R. "here" earns back internal-rhyme rights — poets rhyme it constantly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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/flight→AY 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 meterGET /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.