An excellent resource for learning about the different forms and devices used in poetry. Each item is linked to its own page which has examples of its use. Many of the pages have videos of authors reading their poems, and some have...

Students examine the relationship of poetic form and content, shaped by alliteration, consonance, repetition, and rhythm, in two poems about fatherhood: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz."

This site shares poems written in the language and style of the Vikings. Translations and links to other poems that relate to the Viking theme and verse formats are also included on this site.

This article by Eric McMillan focuses on comparing the translations of Beowulf with passages from the original Old English translation and four other translations. He discusses translations in poetry and in prose, with alliteration and...

This site highlights the vocabulary and sound techniques that Poe used to create his well-known poem "The Raven." See if you can identify the devices in the last part of the poem.