Today, we help you pay attention to the sound and feel of this week’s poem. Play our game to see how much you’ve already ...

Little Star” in which the initial syllables are stressed, with “twin” in “twinkle,” “li” in “little,” and “star.” Before Whitmarsh’s research it had been settled theory that the earliest clear ...

To celebrate National Poetry Month in April, we invited 5 Washington Post photographers to capture nature, and invited 5 ...

Confounded by a confusing expression or dream from a patient, I might seemingly shift gears and ask myself, 'What if this ...

Cindy Calvin, a Columbia native, led participants in a Poetry and Flow class at The Broadway Hotel last Saturday.

The BBC show first broadcast in 2008 and consists of a tournament-type format in which teams compete by finding connections between seemingly unrelated clues. It is presented by Victoria Coren ...

Stressed words or syllables are said more forcefully – they can be louder, higher or longer and the vowel sound is clear. We can use stress to show what the most important words in the sentence are.

Giuliana Ravaglia heard from the small migratory bird in Bologna. Eric Kimura penned this 5-7-5 syllable poem during a visit to see early blossoming cherry trees on the Miura Peninsula in Kanagawa ...