An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in Wiltshire ...

Explain to the children that they are going to try and work out the words missing from the end of each rhyming couplet; a pair of lines from a poem where the final words of each line rhyme and ...

A trigger warning printed in the collection of humorous children’s poems warns that the rhymes may be “hurtful or indeed harmful” to modern-day readers. The disclaimer alerts readers to ...

The poem is essentially praising the house and estate, she added. One of the rhyming couplets in it reads ... the estate's tradition of giving local children from the nearby village of Horningsham ...