Lord Byron (1788–1824) gave five different poems the title “Stanzas for Music” — simply as a generic name by which he meant either that he heard the rhythm of a melody while he wrote the poems, or ...

Haazinu is a poem with definite stanzas. It is one of the few places in the Torah where Jewish law dictates where the stops in the Torah reading should take place. This is done in order to retain the ...

The Swing is a poem by Don Paterson about love and loss. The speaker builds a swing for his children, and whilst doing so considers the loss of an expected baby. The reader is never made explicitly ...

Abhay K is the author of nine poetry collections, and he seems preoccupied with geography, topography, and landscape. He was till recently the Indian Ambassador to Madagascar, but we are concerned ...

Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...