Written in the stars is the poem: “Stars above in the night, hanging there, oh so high. Look at them, they shine so bright, punching through the ink black sky.” A rhyme scheme is when we look at the ...

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 ...

Pat Pattison writes and teaches online songwriting and lyric writing courses for Berkleemusic.com, the online continuing education division of Berklee College of Music. His books, including ...

One answer is to say that poetic forms offer the poet a pre-­existing structure on which to hang their thoughts, the way an ­arbour offers a climbing rose its shape. These structures have proven their ...