It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

John Agard’s Checking Out Me History is an example of an open form poem but one that still has a shape and structure. It is divided into stanzas - poetic paragraphs - and includes some rhyme and ...

As a class, we will read the poem out loud, and as a group, we will examine the form, vocabulary, and imagery of the first stanza. In groups of three, students are assigned either stanza two or three ...

There are some forms of poetry which follow specific rules and others which can be freer. Poems can be ordered by breaking them into groups of lines called stanzas. Stanzas in a poem separate ...

The stanzas recount the Battle of Baltimore, a days-long siege between British and American forces. The poem was set to a tune called “The Anacreontic Song,” which was composed in the late ...