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Literacy
Guide to
writing poetry by Jupiter Class Writing a Poem! Whilst writing a poem you need skills and talent! You also need
lots of patience because writing a poem needs time, thought and experience! In a poem you sometimes need to use rhyming couplets, same
amount of syllables and also alliteration! But you do not have to use all of
these, because when you are writing a poem, it’s you that decides the way
your poem is going to be!
By Daisy When you
look at a poem there are lots of tricks that poets use to make their poems
sound good. This is
our guide to those tricks! Rhyme This is when the words on the end of the lines end with the
same sound Mr Bunkie
Is he so funkie? He can dance and sing He can even do the swing His got a girlfriend called Lexie He thinks she’s so sexy He’s got a mother who’s lovely A father who’s grumpy He wants to be king He loves to fling By Demi Rhythm This is when there is a regular pattern in the syllables of stressed
and unstressed sounds. It makes the poem sound like a song when you read it.
This is the
time of year, When we all
start to cheer. For all the
food and thanks giving, That helps
us make a better living. The food the
grains the crops are here, They’ve fed
us well throughout the year. The oranges
and apples and all the crops grown, Help us
survive as the leaves turn brown. By Ben and
Stewart
Trees Trees Trees in the breeze When I look up I get shaky knees I run home to eat my peas To find out I’ve lost my keys Green Green leaves That match my tasty peas My hair waving in the breeze Shaking shaking knees Still lost my keys Mixed with the leaves. By Demi Limericks We had a go at writing our own limericks. These are poems that follow
a set pattern of 5 lines and a standard rhythm. There was a cute little dog, That got lost in a thick grey fog Then he got stuck And ate a big duck Then ran off and got stuck in the bog. By Jack H Alliteration
Here is a slimy snake, A silky, slimy snake, A silly, silky, slimy
snake! Alliteration is a bundle of
describing words all in one sentences! All of the words start with the same
sound, like the above example... Why don’t you try and make
up your own alliteration poem.
By Sophie
dilly day dream dotty dog cute coddy cat porky panty pig Tanya totty tiger snoring snazzy snake Harry the hot hare By Lucy Simile A simile uses “like” or “as” to compare one thing to another to
create a picture in the reader’s mind. Do not
stand and stare
Be as
quick as a hare
Assonance I’ve used assonance in my poem in the highlighted line. The
sounds in the middle of the words are the same. This is assonance. I AM A FISH! I am a fish, Swimming all alone, Whirling and swirling, In the deep blue sea. My name is Henry, All With big blue eyes, And flippy, floppy fins. By Jack Verse A verse is like a paragraph in story writing. It is the
sections that you cut a poem up into. Lunch Boxes, Munch Boxes, Yellow, Green and Blue, I’ve got tuna sandwiches, How about you? Lunch Boxes, Munch Boxes, Today I’ve got cheese sandwiches And I’m acting like a clown. Lunch Boxes, Munch Boxes, Purple, Red and Pink, When my mum washes it, She says, “Oh, what a stink!” By Amy Concrete or Shape Poems Click on the
writing hand to see photographs of some of our shape poems.
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