Rhyme thrives at both poles of literature. It is the material of a greeting card—“Roses are red / Violets are blue / Sugar is sweet / And so are you”—and the high-tragic language of Racine. Rhyme ...

Many AI guardrails rely on classifiers that scan for keywords and patterns. According to the researchers, poetic language can ...

Can a catchy little rhyme really be that problematic? Yes—and it’s one way racism was inextricably woven into American life. Get ready to cringe at these childhood favorites. It’s no longer enough to ...

It’s funny. When you dig into the lyrics of a particular song, you might be stunned by what they say. For example, one of the sweetest-sounding songs we hear as a child is the nursery rhyme, ...

“Rhyme, Rhythm, and Resistance” is both an ode to artists of the past and a nod to artists of today who have a common “disdain for the status quo.” Patrice Green, curator for African American and ...

NBC has had a good recent history of putting bloody procedurals on Friday nights, first with Hannibal and then with The Blacklist. With the latter show ending this season, they felt a need to fill ...

CARLISLE—Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet is ready to unveil its first production of the season, “Once Upon a Rhyme,” on Saturday and Sunday. The all-ages show, which is based on Mother Goose nursery ...

Like the beat, beat, beat of the tom-tom. Movement, commentary, passion, rhyme. All wrapped into song. Spoken, sung, experienced. Whether it trips off the tongue or trips up the tongue, it has a beat; ...