Curated Video
Free Verse Poetry
Free Verse Poetry reviews the elements of a free verse poem and composes one of at least five lines about a famous person in history.
Wonderscape
Literature Kids: Exploring Poetic Devices
In this video, the teacher discusses the fundamental poetic devices of alliteration, assonance, and consonance. They explain how these devices create rhythm and rhyme in poetry and provide examples from famous poets such as Walt Whitman...
Advocate of Wordz
Blank & Free Verse - Poetry Defined
Blank and Free Verse are sometimes confused as being interchangeable, but they aren't! Also, we sometimes believe we're writing in Free Verse, but we're actually denying ourselves credit we deserve.
TED-Ed
What Makes a Poem … a Poem?
What makes a poem a poem? The narrator of a short video wades into the debate with the contention that the three characteristics that poems share are musical qualities, condensed language, and intense feelings.