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From The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1916, 1923, 1928, 1930, 1934, 1939, 1947, 1949, © 1969 by Holt Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Copyright …

Reinhard Döhl’s poem “Apfel” was written in the shape of an apple and made up entirely of the word "apple" and one instance of the word “worm.” Other examples include “ Gone with the Swallows ” by …

From The Imagist Poem: Modern Poetry in Miniature: An Anthology of the Finest Imagist Poems, edited by William Pratt and published by Story Line Press. © 2001 by the Estate of Hilda Doolittle.

Lyric poetry appears in a variety of forms, the most popular of which is arguably the sonnet: traditionally, a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter. Sir Thomas Wyatt and of course William …

One classic example of how enjambment is used to flow from one line to the next, breaking up words like “wheelbarrow” and “rainwater” is “ The Red Wheelbarrow ” by William Carlos Williams:

A recent example is Anna Rabinowitz ’s Darkling. This book-length acrostic sequence investigates her family’s Holocaust experiences and uses “ The Darkling Thrush ” by Thomas Hardy for its structure.

Contemporary examples of iambic pentameter in poetry tend to be interwoven with other iambic and varied forms of meter within the poem, including sonnets. For instance, the scansion of the poem “ …

The following poems are about graduating, moving forward, and getting older, with poems like “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, “Dreams” by Langston Hughes, and “Instructions on Not Giving …

The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems. A pure found poem consists exclusively of outside …