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In “Rhyme’s Rooms,” the veteran poet and avowed traditionalist Brad Leithauser explains how verse works, and why we should care.
Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already learned.
As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky ...
Learn about perfect rhyme, half rhyme, end rhyme, masculine rhyme, feminine rhyme and internal rhyme with this guide for KS3 English students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.
Could Taylor Swift welcome a new "era" of poetry appreciation? We've got a guide on how to write a poem and 11 prompts to inspire your writing.
Poetry used to have rhyme and rhythm: the reason both words are hard to spell is that they derive from ancient Greek. The oldest recorded rhyme is from China in the 10th century BC.
Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher Virginia Lowe.
For example, in the first couple of sentences in Frost's poem, there's an intricate, expressive dance of the consonants and vowels in eyes, gaze, was, and age.
As an example of what AI chatbots can produce, IBJ wrote the following prompt for Bard, a Google product: “Write a 12-line poem about the 2023 Indianapolis 500 and winner Josef Newgarden ...