This, now, is tricky because soliloquy is not simply a verse feature. It, however, can be in verse as well as prose forms. This a feature...

Genre is the classification of an artwork based on the work's style, subject matter, form, tone and so on. While poetry is one of the...

Motif supplements the theme of a piece of work. It is a recurring idea or action or image or word or symbol in a piece of work, which...

It is what is the underlying idea or meaning of a text. We are used to being asked after having read a book, or a story or watched a...

Now, we know what tone is as a literary device. It is quite often confused with mood. Mood is what the reader and/or audience experience...

What does one mean when one says, "I didn't like his tone." or "Don't you dare speak to me in that tone!" or "That song has a happy...

Occassionally some of us, or the luckier few of us, often, notice a cute little squirrel scurrying away in our garden. They always seem...

Rock a-bye, baby, On the tree top, When the wind blows, The cradle will rock. When the bough breaks, The baby will fall, Down will come...

What is Permafrost and how is it formed? Water that is trapped in the cracks and pores of rocks and under the soil turns into ice when...

Quarantine regulations have been relaxed and lock down is being lifted world over, for the moment, and hopefully so it'll continue,...

The Javan Rhinoceros is the most critically endangered species on planet Earth with only tens of them remaining in the wild and in only...

The elegant snow leopard with their beautiful spotted fur is an endangered species with only around four thousand of them remaining. With...

The likeness in rhyming sounds between only stressed vowels, not consonants, of two or more words that are placed successively or close...

The following lines from Edward Lear's To Miss Lear on her Birthday have the same end rhyme: Dear, and very dear relation, Time, who...

Identical rhyme in English poetry is when the verse has identical vowel and identical onset twice in rhyming positions, most often...

It feels good to finally walk down the street showing off a pair of limited edition sneakers or having a branded tote or backpack slung...

What is the difference between internal rhyme and end rhyme? Internal rhyme and end rhyme are determined by the position of the rhyme...

This is the most common form of rhyme and also the most discernible type of rhyming pattern in a poem or verse. This is an aural rhyme,...

Rhyme is not new to us. Nursery rhymes, the most popular types of rhymes, have a certain quality to them — perhaps why we retain them in...

Although the metrical system in English poetry is predominantly qualitative, quantitative meter, too, has been attempted in English...