Poetry is a tough sell for many people of all backgrounds. Students hate writing and analyzing it, while adults just…
Since poetry's inception, word rhythms - the ebb and flow between accented and unaccented syllables - have played a key…
In everyday speech, the emphasis of certain syllables can cause sentences to have a metered lilt. A poet will often…
Before you begin writing your sonnet, you need to know what a sonnet is. A sonnet is a fourteen line…
A Poet's Arsenal: Basic Poetic Meter - You can ask a hundred people 'What is a poem?' and you will…
Anyone can be a poet. Democracy is a wonderful thing, but it comes with responsibilities. So too with poetry, despite…
The Rape of the Lock is an example of Alexander Pope's mastery of the usage of the heroic couplet and…
Themes and Formats of Sonnets A sonnet is a format for poetry which we call a lyrical poem. We refer…
Traditional poetry forms are the old poetry forms that have been around since poetry was new. Some of the 'old'…
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