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

Poetry is great but everyone thinks it has to rhyme. Well I’m here to tell you it does not. In fact, at times, Rhyme can get annoying. It creeps into your head And that can get boring.

You’ll probably know a bit about rhyme already as it is often used in poetry. Refresh your memory with this short, fun clip. You can sing and dance along with CBBC's Radzi Chinyanganya if you like!

Here’s an old poem to greet the new year. Greet, yes, even if we’re filled with dread or sorrow, there’s always a fresh start ...

That’s why those poems have rhyme and/or have a steady rhythm, so that the author can pass it down in a way that’s easier to memorize word for word. Those poems are still with us today ...

The full-throated music of the poem might have a similar effect on the reader. The cascading rhymes and trippy images conjure a kind of aesthetic rapture that’s not so different from falling in ...

On the menu, presented to you in 17th-century rhyme, we have: almond soup, beetroot and… snails. Uczta u Radziwiła or A Feast at Radziwiłł’s, oil on canvas painting by Aleksander Orłowski, 1st half of ...