The clerihew is named for its inventor, English writer Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who remembered penning his first one as a teenager in school during the 1890s. Its subject was Sir Humphry Davy (which ...

Poetry is the music of our soul. The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, popularly known as P.B. Shelley, wrote, "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar ...

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 ...

Poems are like trees. They come in all shapes and sizes. There are: Big ones. Messy ones. Ordered ones. Small ones. Haikus are small poems that share a moment in time with very few words. They have a ...