Learn how to understand open and closed form in poetry with this KS3 English guide for students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

The poet, like countless others precariously employed in higher education, faces yet another broke summer. In Eckes’s poem, two forms sit in direct confrontation. The unemployment form, with its ...

The poem’s form shows how grief changes within stasis. The second and fourth stanzas echo but swerve, until we get the callback and negation in the final stanza: “Bird doesn’t cut me out.” ...

The poet wants us to be more open and curious, so that we can better understand how we see the world and what connects us to one another. The book – her second collection – is called Ante body .

In a poem posted on the Players' Tribune website, five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant says that this season will be his last. The 37-year-old Lakers player "is currently struggling through the ...

Beyond poetry, GPT-3 still has its flaws, as some have examined in detail. While its factual accuracy has reportedly increased over time, it can still easily generate false information, limiting ...

Modern poetry has moved beyond this form-led poetry to a more open style – after all, not many want to read a poem where they can guess the next rhyme – but these poetic forms and metre still ...

Leonard Cohen. Emily Dickinson. Edna St. Vincent Millay. “Smoke on the Water?” Deep Purple’s head-banging 1972 rock anthem is the last thing you’d expect to hear — in any form — on ...

In closed form poetry, the poet follows a set pattern; and in open form poetry, the poet doesn’t follow any rules but their own. Line length , rhythm close rhythm Rhythm can be described as the ...