The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within is a book by author, actor, comedian, and director Stephen Fry about writing poetry.

Fry covers metre, rhyme, many common and arcane poetic forms, and offers poetry exercises, contrasting modern and classic poets.

Fry sets out to explain the many tools available to a poet in order to organise writing, noting poetry's essential metrical basis and introducing the many technical terms, with explanations and exercises.

The first main section, 'Metre', has six chapters, introducing the natural rhythm of spoken English and many forms of metre.

The next section, 'Rhyme', has three chapters, explaining the 'basic categories', 'rhyming arrangements' and discussing what is good or bad rhyme.