Often when we listen to music, we just instinctually enjoy it. Sometimes, though, it's worth dissecting a song or other composition to figure out how ...

Repetition led to revelation: Every day, I noticed new things in the text. By the end of the month, I knew the poem by heart. Since then, this practice has become essential.

Poetry has deep roots in music — in fact, in some cultures, poetry and song are the same word. Edward Hirsch, author of A Poet's Glossary, explains how poets use rhythm to reach their readers.

Some narrative poems also contain repetition to add rhythm and make it more predictable. Watch: Narrative poems To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.

The poem serves as a kind of map to Bishop’s stylistic moves, such as parenthetical statements, rhetorical questions, and repetition. The poem’s last line, “More delicate than the historians ...

Lisa Jarnot’s “Suddenly, Last Summer” develops, through ecstatic repetition, a theology of lostness. The sea-turtle hatchlings, with their instinctual desire to move toward light, risk this ...