SOME have tried to make us believe that what Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend, once uttered must be considered the world’s shortest poem. He said: “Me Whee!” On the other hand, Aram Saroyan’s poem that ...

RUBAA’I, or quatrain, is considered a difficult poetic genre to compose despite its brevity. A quatrain, as the name suggests, is confined to just four lines since the word rubaa’i is derived from an ...

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and the world’s richest man, tweeted a 1,800-year-old Chinese poem comparing the killing of a sibling to boiling beans from the same root, spurring conversations among netizens on ...

Tesla CEO and newly-minted world’s richest person Elon Musk sparked debate after posting an ancient Chinese quatrain on Twitter and Weibo. The reference: Musk shared the English word “Humankind” and ...

Quatrains in English folk verse are governed by laws that regulate the patterns of truncation (nonfilling of metrical positions) at the ends of lines. Each truncation pattern (we claim 26) is adhered ...

The Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska’s Sept. 11 poem, translated by Clare Cavanagh, immortalizes those who jumped from the World Trade Center towers by intentionally not imagining how they must have ...

A four-line poem, also known as a quatrain, allegedly written by 16th-century philosopher Michel de Nostradamus described predictions of a future “plague” that would “fall upon the world.” (Some ...