What unites these descriptions of poetry is that none uses the word “rhyme”. When A.E. Housman, a poet, gave a 51-page lecture titled “The Name and Nature of Poetry” in 1933 he used the ...

Fox Sports commentator Colin Cowherd is the latest to chime in, and he managed to use a rhyme. "Let’s be honest ... And between his poetry and his wordplay, it's pretty entertaining, if nothing ...

To map the historic home of the Yangtze finless porpoise, a group of researchers in China turned to a different sort of record: More than a thousand years of poetry. The creature ... about the same ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...

An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in ...

An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in ...

The nature of some of the graffiti suggested football fans were ... with an ABAB rhyming scheme, the same form as Thomas Gray's celebrated 18th-Century poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ...

Poetry is often constrained by rules, and these add to, rather than detract from, its creativity. Rhyming poems generally follow a scheme formed by giving each line a letter, so that lines with ...

Poet Henry Birtles, who writes mainly about horse racing, has won a legion of fans through his work - including Joanna Lumley ...