Poetry is a written piece that emphasizes ideas or feelings. It often uses imagery, emotion, figurative language, rhythm, and rhyme. Some poems, like a sonnet or haiku, have a prescribed form. Others, such as free verse, have no specific format.
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Forty-four men have served as President of the United States. They have lead the country through wars, economic depressions, ...
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Macabre, dark, foreboding; these adjectives are often used to describe the works of Edgar Allan Poe. While this is true of ma...
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by Alice Hale Burnett from Hallowe'en at Merryvale
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by Robert Louis Stevenson from A Child’s Garden of Verses
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This delightful poem by Robert Louis Stevenson was p...
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This poem is from “A Child’s Garden of Verses” by Ro...
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Robert Louis Stevenson delighted generations of chil...
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