The sestina is a highly complex thirty-nine line poem that uses repeating end words instead of a rhyming pattern.

Irony Defined Irony is one of those concepts that can be hard to nail down. It can be easily confused with sarcasm, satire, coincidence, and plain old bad luck. (Ironic, don’tcha think?) In this post, we'll explore what irony is and look specifically at irony in poetry. A basic definition of irony: A circumstance in which the actual is surprisingly different from the expected . (refer to photo above) LiteraryDevices.net : "Irony is a literary device in which contradictory sta

What is an Acrostic Poem? Traditionally, an acrostic is a poem in which the first letters of each line spell out a word or phrase when read vertically. Acrostic poetry has been around since ancient times. In fact, its name is derived from two Greek words: akro - (meaning “beginning, end, tip”) and stichis   (meaning “line, row, rank”). Anyway, a simple example of the acrostic poem: W hy am I bothered that E veryone else seems I mpervious to change R egardless of the D rama it

Book design is tricky, especially when you’re dealing with a genre that is often quite complex and abstract. What type of design works for that? The good news is that readers of poetry expect chapbooks and other poetry collections to have somewhat abstract designs that may or may not be immediately understandable. Still, there are good designs and not-good designs, designs that will attract readers and designs that won’t. In this post, we’ll delve into the good, bad, and ugly