Thursday, April 16, 2009
Quatrains
As we continue to celebrate Poetry Month, the type of poem for today's post is the Quatrain. Quatrains are four-line poems that may follow any one of four different rhyme patterns (AABB, ABAB, ABBA, & ABCB). Having a certain "flow" to your poem will set it apart from others as rhythm plays an important part in poetry. Please try your best to create this by repeating to yourself (and maybe even making some changes to your first draft) many times before posting. Yesterday we almost reached our goals of 10 Haikus. Today we'll shoot for 10 Quatrains from the blog readers. Post away!
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Earth Day is coming
ReplyDeleteEarth day is coming soon
And we will celebrate
By cleaning parks & land
To help the planet's fate
The dolphin jumped out of the sea
ReplyDeleteTrying to show off
But then she did something wrong
And didn't land so soft
Here's a story using Quatrains.
ReplyDeleteMy iPod is loaded with podcasts and good tunes
I've eaten my pre-race snack of dried prunes
The weather is perfect and I'm ready to go
Thank goodness the forecast does not call for snow
Five miles is the distance for tonight's training run
It's so nice to see so much of the sun
I can't wait to hear the podcast today
It's about the Playoffs in the NBA
My team is the Lakers and they look pretty prime
To bring home the championship one more time
Mr. James is a player who worries me lots
He's so good at making all the right shots
But Kobe and Paul will give it their best
Plus Andrew, Lamar and all the rest
It's win or "Go Home" and I'm ready to cheer
For the Lakers to make 2009 their year!
Go Lakers!
Title: The Stream
ReplyDeleteA- The water was racing down the stream
B- By the sandy bay
C- As fast as a lightning beam
B- Under the stream pebbles lay
Lindsey☼
There is a giant mole
ReplyDeleteIt is after cole
Now it is after me
And a bee
The Puppy
ReplyDeleteA- The puppy was really wild
B- As wild as a cat
C- When you get close he bits
B- He's as scary as a bat
Lindsey
The Weather
ReplyDeleteA- The clouds are going by
B- In the clouds are lightning bolts
C- And loud thunder bombs
B- In the lightning bolts are volts
Lindsey
The twins won last night
ReplyDeleteBut the game gave me a fright
Nathan gave up a home run
I wish the game was in the sun
He finally got out of the jam
I wondered if he smelled like ham
Then Morneau came up to bat
avoided the double play that was that