It must have fourteen lines, with three groups of four lines that set up the subject or problem of the poem.

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Here is part of that poem: The bone tasted of nothing and smelled of nothing, A scalded toothless harp, uncrushed,unstrung.

VOA: special.2011.01.31

The dancers used their bodies to express the setting where the poem takes place, in a kingdom by the sea.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

The chief engineer,Joseph Strauss, wrote a poem called "The Mighty Task is Done" after the Golden Gate Bridge was completed.

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It is written on the bridge. Here is how the poem begins: At last the mighty task is done;

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The speaker describes how the person he loves will remain forever young and beautiful in the lines of this poem.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

The Favorite Poem Project collected video of Americans from all backgrounds,ages and places reading their favorite poems and talking about them.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

with her mother and brother. Safia says she wrote her first poem for a high school English class three years ago.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

In a recent American Life in Poetry column, he writes about the poem "Betrayal" by Andrea Hollander Budy.

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The earliest known copy of the poem in Francis Scott Key's own handwriting is housed at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore.

VOA: special.2011.03.07

Here Warren Scheer reads the very beginning of Geoffrey Chaucer's great poem, "The Canterbury Tales" as it was written in Middle English.

VOA: special.2011.01.12

Eighteen year old slam poet Safia Elhillo deals with another serious issue in her poem, "Immigrant City."

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She says the work is a poem about the people who cross our paths in a lifetime.

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Here,the poet includes Shackletons vision in part of his famous poem The Waste Land. Who is the third who walks always beside you?

VOA: special.2010.02.24