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

It rhymes with heaven. Seven did ... Even the leaves on my plants are clapping. WEIRDLY RELIGIOUS POEM Jesus likes the number 12. PROSE POEM Paul Allen, buy me two more fingers!

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. People think that poems have to rhyme – well, they don’t! Rhyming must be used carefully – using it too much ...