During Round 13, Dr. Jacques Bailly, official pronouncer of the Bee and winner in 1980, called up contest 136, Harini Murali, ...

At the most extreme, some forms of constrained writing are even more self-limiting and end up being very, very constrained ...

The poem’s individual words and syllables bob like a string of harbor buoys. Every line is propelled by the cadence of stressed and unstressed syllables. Our ears hear four heavy beats.

Little Star” in which the initial syllables are stressed, with “twin” in “twinkle,” “li” in “little,” and “star.” Before Whitmarsh’s research it had been settled theory that the earliest clear ...

But should a major decline occur, he continued, “heed these lines” from Rudyard Kipling’s classic poem “If,” circa 1895. “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ...

Poe based the rhythm and meter of “The Raven” on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem “Lady Geraldine ... with each “foot” a trochee—one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed ...

But the question remains, if the qualities of the poem in the original are deeply and crucially ... marks and counts the “stresses” (stressed syllables/accented syllables) and later the “unstressed ...

Used in traditional poetry and verse ... Each foot is composed of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, creating a “da-DUM” pattern that mimics the natural flow of speech ...

I felt more able to settle into my other work, which is writing, and particularly writing poems. In an often-furious ... or flower helps people regulate stress, to emerge rested and curious ...

Poems with clever rhyme sequences are always fun to read ... Bark and break: “Bark” and “break” have similar consonant sounds, but they do not share the same stressed syllable sound. This is known as ...