F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

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 ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In fact, against a tide of weariness, fear or despair, I have two small pieces of advice on this Earth Day, embedded in National Poetry Month: start a garden, (even one plant!), and read or ...