When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By David Orr RHYME’S ROOMS The Architecture of Poetry By Brad Leithauser If you write about ...

Poem of the Day: ‘Slug the Umpire’ In five delightfully gruesome tetrameter quatrains, this newspaper poem explains exactly what a fan would like to do to the umpire, even before the innings start.

Learn how to understand rhythm in poetry with BBC Bitesize KS3 English for students aged 11-14. BBC ... The witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth occasionally speak in a pattern of trochaic tetrameter.

Here, in tetrameter quatrains with rhymes on the second and fourth lines of each stanza, she positions the father and daughter in an Edenic apple orchard. The father, with his knowledge of good and ...

"A Poetry Handbook" also touches on what not to do. For instance, clichés should be avoided, which applies to all writing. Oliver also shares some advice about the overall writing process.

In turgid anapestic tetrameter, the poem lauds Trump as “a leader whose courage is true / Whose virtues are solid and long overdue.” ...

Write It in Iambic Tetrameter. By Katy Waldman. Oct 22, 2015 12:40 PM. ... Will such mini-poems make it onto the syllabus of a nearby college English course? Probably not.

If you paid any attention at all in high school English, you probably remember iambic pentameter, most likely from reading Shakespeare, and perhaps even other meters like trochaic tetrameter (the ...

Learn how to understand rhythm in poetry with BBC Bitesize KS3 English for students aged 11-14. BBC ... The witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth occasionally speak in a pattern of trochaic tetrameter.