Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see the pattern of the poem. For example, if a poem's first and third lines rhyme ...

One in five (20%) believe classic love poetry only focuses on hetero-romantic love, while 60% claim the lack of ...

Jeet Thayil turns a mirror to the country and himself in his new book. Gandhi is reborn as a house gecko, the government is fake and his love grows wings and flies away.

in his pre-eminently popular 19th century poem, “The Raven,” written in ear-catching ABCBBB and AABCCCCBCBB rhyme schemes, wrote that football should be “evermore,” whereas poetry should b ...

Observant members of the Australian literary world have been amazed by the Times Literary Supplement of September 10, 2010. I ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

and ends with poems from To a Little Girl, published posthumously in 1978. Throughout, we see the development of a poetic voice, as she moves from traditional rhyme-schemes and forms into a ...

All of us as vital as the one light we move through.” Amanda Gorman was just 22 when her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb”, read for Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021, made her a breakout ...

With a budget of ₹6,238 crore the scheme is being implemented from FY21 ... When the purchase order for a component is placed, for example, through a factory in China, to procure the raw ...