You’ve heard of rhyme schemes, the various ways you can arrange sounds to link lines and create sequences of motion. In this article, I want to look at rhythm’s ability to do the same thing: sometimes ...

Pat Pattison writes and teaches online songwriting and lyric writing courses for Berkleemusic.com, the online continuing education division of Berklee College of Music. His books, including ...

To the continuing debate on the art of attracting a mate, Allison Joseph offers this frisky pantoum. Originating from Malaysian oral tradition, the pantoum combines an ABAB rhyme scheme with a ...

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...