When sounds match up at the end of a line It’s called ‘end rhyme’ and sounds mighty fine So who wins the battle? And the prize of a rattle? Let’s call it a draw? Okay, that’s fine. When words have ...

This fun list includes English words that don't have any rhymes. It also includes words that only have obscure rhymes. Many of the words on the obscure list are thought to be rhymeless by many, but ...

In the poem saying that "vowel" or "reverberation" deliberately arranges the same thing is called "rhyme" or "rhyming". Rhymes are commonly seen in poetry around the world such as haiku poetry and ...

Host Debbie Elliott and Chris Roberts dissect the meaning of the nursery rhyme "Little Jack Horner." It's about a real estate swindle in 16th-century England. Roberts is the author of Heavy Words ...

London librarian Chris Roberts fills Debbie Elliott in on the three men in the tub as a series on the real meaning of nursery rhymes continues. Roberts is the author of Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The ...

Like the beat, beat, beat of the tom-tom. Movement, commentary, passion, rhyme. All wrapped into song. Spoken, sung, experienced. Whether it trips off the tongue or trips up the tongue, it has a beat; ...

For Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a poet, poetry was that which “makes nothing happen”. Arnold Bennett, a writer, ...