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 you ...
Sonnets are a form of poem that was much loved by William Shakespeare. This one might be his most famous: Sonnet 18. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?' asks Shakespeare. A sonnet is usually ...
Those so-called “cultured” types sure love to brag about their love of poetry. We aren’t sure how they get their fix of literary arts. But we like to imagine that they sport berets, hang around coffee ...
If you haven’t read “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” nursery rhyme in a long time, you might want to revisit it. Cheer on the spider for climbing up the spout again and listen to the poetry of the rhymes. That ...
NEW DELHI: Aspiring English poets have multiple online resources telling them how to write a sonnet, haiku or limerick but those aspiring to pen Urdu verse have just the Qaafiya Dictionary to help ...