This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Kate Coombs, who lives in Bountiful, Utah. Kate began writing when she was seven or eight years old and was first published in 2006. She confides that ...

I hope you are enjoying our Sunday column, “Poetry from Daily Life,” which provides each week the wit, wisdom, and experiences of poets and authorities on poetry. By offering such a rich mix of voices ...

When sounds match up at the end of a line It’s called ‘end rhyme’ and sounds mighty fine So who wins the battle? And the prize of a rattle? Let’s call it a draw? Okay, that’s fine. When words have ...

"I only like poems that rhyme." Or, more drastically: "If it doesn't rhyme, it's not a poem." These declarations of allegiance to end-rhyme sound traditional or even daringly reactionary—fearlessly ...

The form of a poem is how we describe the overarching structure or pattern of the poem. Some forms of poetry must stick to very specific rules about length, rhythm and rhyme. Poets enjoy playing with ...

For Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a poet, poetry was that which “makes nothing happen”. Arnold Bennett, a writer, ...

Why do we appreciate rhyming words in songs and poetry? How long can one "hold" a sound while waiting for a rhyme? Rhythm and rhyme help us to remember things. They do this through acoustic encoding, ...