The glad demeanour and mischievous tones in Hunt's most shared and well known poems must come from the cheerful, sensitive and perceptive...

The acute attention to detail that the Japanese culture lends to every aspect of their life is unmistakable. One such aspect is Bunraku,...

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. (IV.i.10-11) Remember these lines and the three witch sisters in...

A blank verse with a feminine ending is, not the standard ten-syllabic metre, instead, one more than the ten, ending with an additional...

Kumaran Asan was awarded the title Mahakavi (great poet), by Madras University in 1922. When the evils of caste system had cast its...

Although celebrated as one of the greatest playwrights, Schiller is first a poet. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German...

Capping couplet is one rhymed couplet of two lines, which have the same metre. These are typically found at the end of poems or at the...

For years and years we only use We take, We break, We start to lose The smoke, the waste, the plastics float We cut, We burn, We drain...

Heroic couplet is a form of iambic pentameter. They are a pair of iambic pentameters with a rhyming metric template such as aa, bb, cc...

क्यों इस राशन के युग में, पानी बेकार बहाऊँ मैं? [In this era of extreme scarcity Why must I let water run out?] Quite serious an issue!...

Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked And danced all the modern dances; And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it, But they knew that...

The first poet featured here on O, John Wilmot, was the second Earl of Rochester. A libertine, the Earl was infamous for his waywardness...

Q. Verse, what is it? A. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines verse as writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a...

The Einstein-Rosen bridge could have brought us to that answer, had it been possible to travel back in time, at least, by now when...