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 ...

Poetry is usually short, and the rhythm and rhyme embedded in poetry for children make poems easy to learn to read. Even ...

What is the significance of rhythm for poetics? Literary studies research has not yet answered this question exhaustively. Professor Achim Geisenhanslüke wants to change this. He will work on the ...

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

It’s joyful, fun and, hand in hand with rhythm it sits with our ... a particular phase they go through, and children are pretty quick to sense that poetry like this can be trying too hard ...