The Use of Rhyming Dictionaries.
Why should it be held unseemly for a poet to use a rhyming dictionary? If he has ended a line with "love," why should he not learn from a glance at the dictionary that the next line must end with "dove," "glove," "shove," or "above"? Why should he be compelled to run through the whole alphabet, "buy," "cuv," "fuv," "guy," "huv," and so on? Why should he not recognize at once the limitations of that rhyme, and either settle on "dove" or "above" at once, or drop "love" in favor of some other word?
Every situation in life has its limitations, and the sooner we learn them, the better. Rhymes are hampering things, but the final pleasing effect is worthwhile. It is always worthwhile to make the most of our limitations; in that way our lives become genuine poems. Only, we must know what they are. It is useless, for instance, outside of dialect verse, to seek a rhyme for "scarf."