Some forms of poetry must stick to very specific rules about length, rhythm and rhyme. Poets enjoy playing with form. They often have fun making and breaking rules! He clasps the crag with crooked ...

Take note of how the poem’s content and form reflect one another. As you read more traditional poems, you’ll also notice many classic poetry forms present shifts in almost exactly the same ...

The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry identifies a poetics of Gothic enclosure constitutive of high Victorian poetry that came to define key nineteenth-century poetic forms, from the dramatic monologue ...