Geoffrey Chaucer’s 23-verse poem “A. B. C.”—written in the 14th century, before j, u, and w were even added to the English alphabet—is among the form’s most famous examples. Palindrome ...

For example, in a poem with an ABAB rhyme scheme, the first and third lines rhyme with each other, as do the second and fourth lines. Rhyming words play a crucial role in creating rhythm and ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...

Whatever you think of the rhyme scheme in the lines “you can find me in a pub we/are watching rugby/with his school friends,” it’s a great example of enjambment. This French-derived word describes ...

The poetry study highlights just how much work remains to be done. The element of the LLM that’s activated by the poetry-related generation is very small relative to the full universe of tasks ...

Introducing the form: Before I introduce a new form, I prepare a packet of approximately five classroom-appropriate poems for study. PoetryFoundation.org is one of my go-to resources for finding ...

“I visit the largest schools in the state and the smallest rural ones, too and the kids and their teachers can’t imagine writing their own poetry, so I tell them that if they write a poem and put it ...

The title poem, Saint Thomas and the Forbidden Birds, for example, offers the reader a glimpse of St. Thomas Aquinas preparing a commentary on the Old Testament proscription against various fowl.

Against a tide of weariness, I have two pieces of advice on this Earth Day, embedded in National Poetry Month: start a garden, and read or write a poem, writes Tess Taylor.