Poetry used to have rhyme and rhythm: the reason both words ... larky rhymes and snarky rhymes that asked bombs to fall on Slough as “It isn’t fit for humans now.” There were sorrowful ...

I discovered that some shiso, which a kind neighbor offered me last spring, and which seemed a failed experiment by fall, had only been ... and particularly writing poems. In an often-furious ...

Today’s Poem of the Day, “Song in the Key of Autumn,” published in the Century in 1920, exhibits the early twentieth century’s fluid relationship with traditional rhyme and meter. As its title ...

The full-throated music of the poem might have a similar effect on the reader. The cascading rhymes and trippy images conjure a kind of aesthetic rapture that’s not so different from falling in ...