Written in the stars is the poem: “Stars above in the night, hanging there, oh so high. Look at them, they shine so bright, punching through the ink black sky.” A rhyme scheme is when we look at the ...

Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

One answer is to say that poetic forms offer the poet a pre-­existing structure on which to hang their thoughts, the way an ­arbour offers a climbing rose its shape. These structures have proven their ...