Do you know how to tell the difference between verse and prose? This is something that trips a lot of people up, but my quick, minute-long...

A dactyl is not a dinosaur - but "dinosaur" is a dactyl! A dactyl is a metric foot in poetry that is one stressed syllable...

If you've ever wondered what a sonnet is, I'm gonna break it down for you right now! Simply put, a sonnet is a type of poem, f...

Last week on Breaking Down the Bard, I explained couplets , or two lines of verse in a row which have an ending rhyme. This week, we'll...

There are two main styles of poetic rhyming that we find in Shakespeare's verse: couplets and quatrains . Being able to easily and q...

If you've been on Instagram, Pinterest, or the Internet in general, you've probably seen those lovely images with a quote on them ...

Now that you know what verse is , and what perfect iambic pentameter is (and if you don't, feel free to read my previous Breaking Do...

Now that you've got a handle on the difference between verse and prose , what perfect iambic pentameter is , and what scansion is (and ...