About Course

Explore the essentials of poetic craft and form in this hands-on workshop. You’ll delve into meter, rhyme, and stanza structures, then learn to harness poetic devices—imagery, metaphor, sound—to deepen emotional resonance. Through close readings and writing exercises, you’ll gain tools to shape your own voice and experiment across diverse poetic traditions.

What Will You Learn?

  • Foundations of meter (iamb, trochee, etc.) and how to vary rhythm
  • Techniques for rhyme schemes and when to break them
  • Strategies for crafting vivid imagery and layered metaphor
  • Use of alliteration, assonance, consonance, and internal rhyme
  • Approaches to structuring poems: sonnet, villanelle, free verse, and more
  • Methods for revising poems to sharpen language and musicality

Course Content

Foundations of Form

  • Mastering Rhyme Schemes

Sound & Rhythm

Imagery & Revision