NOTE TO NEWCOMERS
This is Max Tell with my 11th writing game to give the poems you write for kids a unique personal flair and a bit of a bite. Teachers are invited to use these games to encourage their student to write poems of their own.
Note: A reference to 'poems' also includes songs. A reference to 'songs' refers only to song writing.
A special thanks to Sheree Fitch who inspired 'Koetry for Pids'.
This is Max Tell with my 11th writing game to give the poems you write for kids a unique personal flair and a bit of a bite. Teachers are invited to use these games to encourage their student to write poems of their own.
Note: A reference to 'poems' also includes songs. A reference to 'songs' refers only to song writing.
A special thanks to Sheree Fitch who inspired 'Koetry for Pids'.
A few weeks ago, I read a poem based on a recurring AAAA rhyme scheme, know as monorhyme, common in Latin and Arabic poetry. If you have not studied rhyme, many poems are based on an ABAB rhyme scheme. In other words, the third line rhymes with the first and the fourth line rhymes with the second, as in this example:
Mary had a pretty bird,
Feathers bright and yellow,
Slender legs, upon my word,
He was a pretty fellow.
- Mother Goose
In an AAAA rhyme scheme, all lines rhyme. I thought, well, I have to try that. But I also wanted to see how many times I could keep the rhyme going and still keep the integrity of the poem. The following, What Can I Say, was the result.
What Can I Say
What can I say?
It's a very fine day
to say what I say,
and this is the way.
Dogs may bray
but that's OK,
while a poem today,
I write in play.
"Down by the bay,
while in Bombay,
the sky wasn't grey,
it was sunny all day.
As my friend Ray
walked into the fray
in a light-hearted way,
gone his toupee."
A poem, I pray,
I've written today
outside a cafe
while a tree did sway.
At the end of the day
I'll take me away,
this day in May,
and hit the hay.
- Max Tell
Now it's your turn. Write your own poem with an AAAA rhyme scheme.
Make sure you choose a rhyme that gives you lots of rhyming possibilities. Trying to write a long poem with every line rhyming with 'house', 'horse', or 'moose' would be extremely difficult, if not impossible.
I have at least four rhyming dictionaries of my own, but I also use RhymeZone.
Now, start writing. Have fun, I did.
Don't forget to share your poems with family and friends. And don't forget to edit, edit, edit.
Resources:
Next week's topic:
End-Rhyme on an Action Word
What poetry question would you like answered? Point of View? Rhyme? Something of your choice? Student questions are also welcome. Your comments below would be greatly appreciated.
Bye for now and see you soon.
Have a great writing day.
Max
Have a great writing day.
Max
Love writing, but love editing more.
Oh what can you say
ReplyDeleteYou stupid lil verse wanna make me laugh the stupidness all away
If you start some shit then ill have to grab my lyrical ak