These columns include explanations and examples of various metrical patterns in poetry.  Practice identifying and applying metrical patterns in creative, powerful ways.

  The Pulse of Poetry

 Weight of the Poem

 

These columns provide a variety of rhyme techniques while also providing suggestions on the placement of rhymes in your poems.  These are very helpful for increasing the unity and flow of your poetry, and avoiding poems that are predictable.

 

Alliteration Literacy

Master of Rhyme

Is it Time to Rhyme?

Poetic Deduction

Rhymer Primer

Paint the Skies

Where will you Rhyme?