A riddle is a type of poem that works like a puzzle. Riddles describe something and sometimes use words with a double meaning. Try writing your own riddle, a friend can try to guess what it describes!

Can you figure out what six-letter adjective Rossetti is describing here?

An important contribution to studies of poetic thought and metaphor, this anatomy of the riddle will appeal particularly to readers and scholars of poetry, modern American and comparative literatures, ...