The Princess and the Ogre by Robert Betts
Copyright 06-21-2003 Picture Credits: Artist: Katharine Cameron 1910 Once upon a time in a far off land there lived a beautiful Princess. She was so beautiful that birds gathered each morning at her window to sing to her. Each morning she would awake, go to the window...Poetry: The Forms and the History The Ode by Catherine Wilson
Copyright 12-19-2002 Age Rating: 10 + Ode The ode is an elaborately structured lyrical poem praising and glorifying an individual, commemorating an event, or describing nature intellectually rather than emotionally. Odes originally were songs performed with a...Free Verse versus Blank Verse
Copyright 03-24-2008 by Frank Fields Age Rating: 7 + Free Verse versus Blank Verse What are they? When should I use them? How to tell which is which? And what else? ~~~~~ Free Verse is: variable, usually unrhymed lines, having no fixed, consistent metrical pattern....