Channel the pain into poetry. | Jan-Otto/iStock via Getty Images. This Burmese poetic form is pithy and often clever, comprising just three four-syllable lines. The last syllable of the first line ...

In types of poems, such as haikus, the writer counts the number of syllables in each line. In metrical poetry, however, poets don’t count the number of syllables in each line; they count the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Well, in that case, I won't… No, I will use, uh… Oh, forget it. Have a look. It's a worm. If ...

In fact, the lyrics of many songs started their lives as poems. Syllables are the beats in a word. The word today has two syllables: ... making sure that each line has five feet of iambic meter.