Poetry can express thoughts and emotions in freeing and insightful ways that prose simply cannot. For those who have never ...
When we hear a sentence, or a line of poetry, our brains automatically transform the stream of sound into a sequence of syllables. But scientists haven't been sure exactly how the brain does this. Now ...
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 strengthen ...
Russian and English poetry both employ syllabo-tonic verse systems; yet a comparison of Russian and English poems written in the same meter reveals that they differ rhythmically. The variations in ...
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 strengthen ...