Dickinson has divided the poem into five stanzas, where each one is four lines long and has a rhyme scheme where the second and fourth lines rhyme. Most lines have the same number of syllables ...

In the second stanza, a hint of the deeper subject of the poem is introduced in the lines January, and we’re/looking back/looking forward/don’t know which way. The brevity and isolation of ...

Traditionally, a poem sticks to a definite form, style and a set of characteristics. Lines are grouped into stanzas, or verses, and poets make deliberate decisions about word choices, and the ...

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...

The stanzas recount the Battle of Baltimore ... This is the most important line of the poem, and a climactic line in the song. Leepson: This is self-evident. It’s the crux of the whole song.

Lisken Van Pelt Dus sees things we probably never saw in quite the same way, and even as we may recognize these things in our ...

My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Amos Bridges, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. I’m especially happy to hear from Amos because he’s the editor-in-chief for the Springfield ...

Hidden away on NASA's Golden Record, an interstellar archive of music, image and sound, there is a recording of a poem ...