rime

rime is a module that finds rhymes, including loose rhymes.

A rhyme finder that works by strictly matching the phonemes of the last syllable of words would get rhymes for the word AIM such as:

SHAME
TAME
BAIM
BAME
BOEHM
BOEHME
GAME
CAME
KAIM
NAME
DAME
DAMME

However, rime can additionally find rhymes for AIM like:

GAIN
LAIN
LAINE
LANE
MOSCOWANE
WINDOWPANE
PREORDAIN
LEGERDEMAIN
ST_GERMAIN
ST_GERMAINE
MANGIAPANE
SULFUROPHANE
FINKIELSTAIN
POLYURETHANE
CYCLOHEXANE
AINGE
CHSEING
MERENGUE
D'ESTAING

In some artistic contexts, this is desirable.

Installation

npm install rime

Then, there are manual postinstall steps:

cd node_modules/rime
npm install
make build-word-phoneme-map
make data/syllables-for-words.json

It's not run on postinstall automatically because it takes a while, about 40 minutes on a computer with a 3.2 GHz i3 processor with 4 GB of RAM. But once you do it, you never have to do it again. This step builds a database that indexes every word in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary by phoneme sequence and also by reverse phoneme sequence. With this, rime can look up what words correspond to what phonemes quickly.

Usage

Create an instance of rime.

var createRime = require('rime');

createRime(
  {
    random: seedrandom('outer'),
    wordPhonemeDbPath: __dirname + '/../data/word-phoneme-map.db'
  },
  useRime
);

function useRime(error, rime) {
  if (error) {
    console.log(error);
  }

  rime.getRhymes(
    {
      base: 'pock'
    },
    reportWords
  );

  function reportWords(error, words) {
    if (error) {
      console.log(error);
    }
    else {
      console.log(words);
    }
  }

API

TODO

Tests

Run tests with make test.

Specification

License

MIT.