The opening above sets the stage for an 18-stanza poem full of despair and longing ... you can read the full 434-line poem in one of Eliot’s poetry collections—and a bleak exploration ...

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 ...

Sometimes I spoke its lines aloud, my voice masked by the airplane’s thrum. Sometimes I went through the whole poem at once, ...

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.

The recently discovered copy of Sonnet 116 "reads as a political love song" during England's Civil Wars, according to the professor who found it.

A local legislator turned to literary language this weekend to lavish love on Elon Musk. U.S. Rep Randy Weber surprised some ...