Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.

Dickinson has divided the poem into five stanzas, where each one is four lines long and has a rhyme scheme where the second and fourth lines rhyme. Most lines have the same number of syllables ...

February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

Poets often choose to write in this rhythm. Rhythm can help to strengthen the meaning of words and ideas in a poem. Some syllables seem to have a long or short sound when they are pronounced.