Poetry

Elements of Poetry

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Sensory Images
Very Earlyby: Karla Kusskin

When I wake in the early mist
The sun has hardly shown
And everything is still asleep
And I'm awake alone.
The stars are faint and flickering.
The Sun is new and shy.
And all the world sleeps quietly,
Except the sun and I.
And then beginning noise start,
The whirrs and huff and hums,
The birds peep out to find a worm,
The mice squek out for crumbs,
The calf moos out to find the cow,
And taste the morning air
And everything is wide awake
And running everywhere.
The dew has dried
The fields are warm,
The day is loud and brighter,
And the I'm the one who woke the sun
And kissed the stars goodnigt.


Rhyme

Bugs and worms come out in spring
They wiggle, squiggle,fly,and sting
Some are brown and some are green
Some so small they can't be seen.

Fuzzy wuzzy,creepy crawly
Catepillar funny
You will be a butterfly
When the days are sunny .

The soft white snow
Like cotton fell
Covering the earth
From head to ___________.

The rabbits hopped
The horses shied
While in the tree
The robins ___________
To listen to the spring.

There is no one in the world like Pop.
I laugh at him til I can't ___________.
He's round and fat and jolly, too.
There's nothing that he cannot ___________.




Alliteration and Onomatopoeia

1)The firecrackers snapped in the dark light
While sizzling sparklers flashed bright light.

2) When the attic floor creaked
Flashes of moonlight streaked
Across the ancient window
While thunder beat a crescendo.

3)The mighty surf crashed the shore
The bubbles bursting in foam
Angry gulls cried overhead
And they wheeled away toward home.

4) As the parade passed by
The trumpets blared
And the drums beat a rapid tattoo
The crowd roared and saluted the flag
Waving banners of every hue.