Contents. There are a total of six poems in the book, each of the featured fairy tales humorously deviating from the traditional version. In Cinderella, the plot stayed true to the original tale until one of the ugly sisters switches her shoe with the one Cinderella left behind at theRead More →
Windy Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson | Poetry Foundation. When did Robert Louis Stevenson write windy nights? Windy Nights (1885) What is the meaning of windy nights? 1 of, characterized by, resembling, or relating to wind; stormy. 2 swept by or open to powerful winds. 3 marked by or givenRead More →
Viernum said that the rhyme is “fairly accurate for snakes in the U.S. but it fails with the Old World coral snakes and many New World species found in Central and South America.” In other parts of the world, coral snakes may have red bands touching black bands, have pinkRead More →
Free Verse vs. Verse poetry is poetry that has both a consistent meter and a rhyme scheme. … Both blank verse and free verse are free from rhyme scheme. But, whereas blank verse does have a consistent meter, usually iambic pentameter, that creates a du-DUM rhythm effect, free verse isRead More →