In 2005, the National Endowment for the Arts, together with the Poetry Foundation, established Poetry Out Loud, a program intended to encourage “the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through ...

It’s a Shakespearian sonnet (three quatrains and a couplet) with a slightly irregular rhyme scheme, each quatrain differently arranged: abab ccdd effe gg. And along the way it builds a surreal sense ...

In “The Way through the Woods,” he uses three- and four-foot lines, with an irregular rhyme scheme and echoes of the French forms that use repeated elements. (The phrase “through the woods” ends seven ...

Now you are going to write a poem about your animal using the rhyming pairs you came up with for Activity 3. The poem should be four lines long and follow the A A B B rhyme scheme.. Choose two of ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see ...

When I e-mailed the poem to my editor for approval, her response was, "That's really long." ... 131 lines, varying structure, irregular rhyme scheme and cryptic story line.

It’s a quiet, melancholy poem built around the idea of being unable to create poems, and it moves so naturally and swiftly that it might take a few readings to catch its tricky, irregular rhyme ...