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Visualizing rhymes in text (part 1)

I'm currently working on a side project that I've had in my head for a while. There are a few blogs and articles out there about measuring and ranking the rhyme styles of different rappers.  And while there is nothing wrong with ranking your favorite rappers (I do this from time to time and it's pretty hard), I make no assumption that I can justify those rankings based on a single dimension of the multi-dimensional lyric-space.  My intention here isn't to assign hard quantities to different rappers, but to better visualize their styles based on their rhyme patterns. While other rhyme detection algorithms do a great job of identifying complex rhyming structure and multi-syllabic rhymes to quantify rhyme, my understanding was that the rhyme definitions were somewhat strict.  For example, a multi-syllablic rhymes could only be counted as far as the syllable sequences matched almost  exactly .  If you're a student of lyrics, you might agree that the best rhymes ar