Do you hear a regular beat da-DUM, da-DUM? This rhythm is very common in poetry and it even has a name: it’s called iambic. Poets often choose to write in this rhythm. Rhythm can help to strengthen ...

As a high school English teacher, I balk a little at the idea of April’s National Poetry Month; isn’t Poetry Month every month? I begin the school year with poem annotations, a gentle practice of ...

HOUMA — For a little while each month, the erratic noise of daily life fades into the background, replaced by the rhythmic words used to express thoughts, feelings and experiences. Poetry writers and ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/style.53.2.0236 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.53.2.0236 Copy URL ABSTRACT: Poetry is formal. Rhythm and form are closely ...

Bermudian poet Alan C. Smith is swiftly gaining a reputation as a cat poet, but his cat poems are never cutesy, tend to be fully clawed, and are rarely about cats at all. Some of Mr. Smith?s cat poems ...