From third grade through sixth grade, I walked to school pretty much every day. There were a few different routes I could take, but all of them started the same way — out the front door, down the ...

Life likes a little mess. All patterns need a snarl. The best patterns know how best to heed a snarl. Every high style, every strict form was once nonce. The best way to save a snagged pattern? Repeat ...

Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

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 ...