"I only like poems that rhyme ... Going by the historical record, end-rhyme has been far from essential—at most, it's only one possibility in the art of combining like and unlike sounds.

The form of a poem is how we describe ... a funny five-line poem with a rhyme scheme AABBA. A haiku has three lines, which in total make up 17 syllables - line one has five, line two has seven ...

This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the ... The words in “Recuerdo” form a bouquet of arresting images and sensations, an experience ...

or abrupt changes in rhyme patterns. Take note of how the poem’s content and form reflect one another. As you read more traditional poems, you’ll also notice many classic poetry forms present ...

By David Orr RHYME’S ROOMS The ... lack of good books on poetic form, then to the annoying way in which scholars allegedly “obsess narrowly over what the poem says,” until finally, after ...

April is the cruelest month, according to one of the most famous poems in the ... I believe that form can urge you to see things differently, quite frankly because a rhyme is going to push you ...

The first two lines should rhyme, and the last ... Hecht devised a new type of poem that echoed the brevity and wittiness of clerihews with a little more focus on form. The double dactyl comprises ...