Some forms of poetry must stick to very specific rules about length, rhythm and rhyme. Poets enjoy playing with form. They often have fun making and breaking rules! He clasps the crag with crooked ...

a form that is familiar to many people who do not ordinarily read or write poetry. Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry that consists of three lines. In a traditional haiku written in Japanese ...

Take note of how the poem’s content and form reflect one another. As you read more traditional poems, you’ll also notice many classic poetry forms present shifts in almost exactly the same ...

This foregrounds the undeniable fact that emotion, feeling, private thought, introspection and the like are the playgrounds and handmaidens of poetry, the most primal of all art forms. Joshua ...