William Shakespeare’s 460th birthday was in April. Love him or hate him, no other author has influenced the English language and literature as much.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see ...

Rhyme, alliteration and rhythm are not only ... As these examples suggest, there’s a lot of variation within the basic pattern — longer or shorter lines, snappy or languorous pacing, playful ...

A study of tracks from the debut albums of major hip hop artists has found that rhyming patterns come as second nature to some of rap's biggest stars - likening them to modern-day poets. Linguists at ...

You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see the pattern of the poem. For example, if a poem's first and third lines rhyme ...