This limerick example focuses on another old person, this time in Nice, France. It's one of those funny poems that may have ...

The form of a poem is how we describe the overarching structure or pattern of the poem. Some forms of poetry must stick to very specific rules about length, rhythm and rhyme. Poets enjoy playing ...

This is called a rhyme scheme. Watch the following clip to learn how rhyme schemes work and to see an example. You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with ...