Written in the stars is the poem: “Stars above in the night, hanging there, oh so high. Look at them, they shine so bright, punching through the ink black sky.” A rhyme scheme is when we look at the ...

You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see the pattern of the poem. For example, if a poem's first and third lines rhyme you ...

In 2005, the National Endowment for the Arts, together with the Poetry Foundation, established Poetry Out Loud, a program intended to encourage “the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through ...

POET Sally Lawson, pictured, is stitching together a lyrical business capturing personal sentiments for all occasions. The 55-year-old, from Sunderland, has worked as a seamstress for the same company ...

Bill Moyers is at it again. Few critics thought anyone in America would sit still for a talking-head TV series on myths. Moyers knew better; his ”Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth” became one of ...

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Perth, Australia singer-songwriter Rachel Dillon. Photo via Facebook page Rachel Dillon Music. I did a master class in Perth, Australia and worked on a song with Rachel Dillon. Here are the first two ...

“It is like we’ve fallen out of a stereotype tree and hit every branch on the way down,” says director Craig Brewer about his pimp-hop, trickster fable Hustle & Flow, in which a Memphis flesh peddler ...

Due to the success of the 2015 viral hit single “Progression” by Rhyme Scheme featuring Armageddon of the late Big Pun’s Terror Squad and indie hip hop Detroit ...