Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already ...

Do you hear a regular beat da-DUM, da-DUM? This rhythm is very common in poetry and it even has a name: it’s called iambic. Poets often choose to write in this rhythm. Rhythm can help to ...

Poetry is usually short, and the rhythm and rhyme embedded in poetry for children make poems easy to learn to read. Even ...

In music, a drummer or bass guitarist might create the beat for the rest of the band to follow, or a conductor might signal the beat to an orchestra or choir, but in poetry the rhythm is usually ...