Against a tide of weariness, I have two pieces of advice on this Earth Day, embedded in National Poetry Month: start a garden, and read or write a poem, writes Tess Taylor.

"I only like poems that rhyme." Or, more drastically: "If it doesn't rhyme, it's not a poem." These declarations of allegiance to end-rhyme sound traditional or even daringly reactionary ...

We've all heard the children's nursery rhyme that runs: Ring-a-ring o'roses, A pocket full of posies, A-tishoo! A-tishoo! We all fall down. The rhyme is usually accompanied by a little dance. The ...

Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher Virginia Lowe.

With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s associate poetry editor. Tied to the ...

The challenge with Father's Day poetry is that most of the best work is written about dads who were objectively terrible, but if you are reading this article in the first place, you probably look ...

You can work out the rhyme scheme shows you see the pattern of rhymes in the poem. Find out more in this Bitesize Primary KS1 English guide.

Against a tide of weariness, I have two pieces of advice on this Earth Day, embedded in National Poetry Month: start a garden, and read or write a poem, writes Tess Taylor.