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Lakshmi
Oct 27, 20212 min read
One Verse Every Week 'EUPHONY'
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...
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Lakshmi
Oct 20, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'CACOPHONY'
Lady Macbeth: Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and...
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Lakshmi
Oct 13, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ALLITERATION-RETURNS'
These lines, 'She sells seashells at the seashore' or Betty Botter bought a bit of butter but the bit of butter was bitter so Betty...
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Lakshmi
Oct 6, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'SIBILANCE'
Sibilant sound is characterised by a hissing sound, and sibilance is a literary device used to convey a mood or situation using the...
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Lakshmi
Sep 29, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'CONSONANCE'
Consonance is a literary device used to create rhyming effect and musicality in a text, especially of poems. It, essentially, is the...
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Lakshmi
Sep 22, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'DISSONANCE'
In poetry, dissonance, is a powerful and useful literary device, employed by poets, although dissonance disrupts the harmony of vowel...
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Lakshmi
Sep 21, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'LAETITIA PILKINGTON'
Laetitia Pilkington was no ordinary woman. Pilkington's extraordinariness was rather conspicuous, especially in the Libertine age or...
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Lakshmi
Sep 15, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ASSONANCE'
The likeness in rhyming sounds between only stressed vowels, not consonants, of two or more words that are placed successively or close...
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Lakshmi
Sep 8, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'ALLITERATION'
In literature, when the same initial consonant (in some cases even vowel) sounds are repeated in successive or closely placed syllables...
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Lakshmi
Sep 1, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'MONORHYME'
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...
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Megha S. Sunder
Aug 30, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'O. N. V. KURUP'
When reading or listening to his poems, one could easily wonder if there ever lived a poet who loved Mother Earth as fervently as this...
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Lakshmi
Aug 25, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'IDENTICAL RHYME'
Identical rhyme in English poetry is when the verse has identical vowel and identical onset twice in rhyming positions, most often...
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Lakshmi
Aug 18, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'INTERNAL RHYME AND END RHYME'
What is the difference between internal rhyme and end rhyme? Internal rhyme and end rhyme are determined by the position of the rhyme...
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Lakshmi
Aug 4, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'INTERNAL RHYME'
Internal rhyme, too, is an aural rhyme, where similar sounding words or syllables occur within the same line multiple times, such as in...
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Ahmad Towaiq
Jul 31, 20212 min read
Verse-Seasons 'N Picks 'ABU AL TAYYEB AL MUTANABBI'
The tenth century poet Abu Al Tayyeb Al Mutanabbi is one of the greatest world poets, who wrote in Arabic. His poems are riddled with...
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Lakshmi
Jul 28, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'END 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,...
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Lakshmi
Jul 21, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'EYE RHYME'
We associate rhyme with sound and it mainly is to do with the aural sense. However, an eye rhyme is an exception; it is a rhyme that...
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Lakshmi
Jul 14, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week '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...
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Arun Somasekharan
Jul 13, 20211 min read
Flash Fiction 'AN ODE TO OZ AND CHAOS THEORY'
Introduction Brevity is the soul of wit. A haiku, in my opinion, is the purest form of poetry. It encapsulates an idea in a few choice...
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Lakshmi
Jun 30, 20211 min read
One Verse Every Week 'QUALITATIVE METER'
When studying English poetry, repeated mention of terminologies such as, stressed syllable and unstressed syllable are hard to miss, and...
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