With a lively rhyme scheme that kids will love reading aloud ... This short quatrain was a hit in 1895, when Gelett Burgess first published his now-famous poem for kids. Despite starting his career as ...

His poems strongly relied on Petrarch; some of the best known, like “Whoso list to hunt,” are quasi-translations of the Italian poet’s work. Writing a half-century later, Shakespeare changed the form, ...

You can sing and dance along with CBBC's Radzi Chinyanganya if you like! You can write rhyming poems by using pairs or groups of words that use the same sounds. This is called a rhyme scheme.

It’s a short poem, often about a famous person or character. It starts with their name. The second line rhymes with the name and gives us a bit more information about the person. The third line ...