A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter, with a particular rhyme scheme that Shakespeare mastered like no other. The main difference ...

In poetry, this pattern of the stressed and unstressed parts of words is called the metre, which is the number and type of rhythmic beats in a line of poetry. In types of poems, such as haikus ...

These lines come from Robert Frost’s brief essay “The Prerequisites,” on first encountering and not understanding — not fully — an Emerson poem. Some 50 years later, “the poem turned ...