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.

Harvest festival.
 

 

 


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

alliterationThis is when all the words start with the same sound

 

 

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

 

 cool  animals
 

 


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 Orange and scaly,

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,

Orange, Black and Brown,

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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