1. 5 elements of a poem The Whole Duty of a Poem A poem should be, as our best ever are, Golden of heart like a rose or a star A poem should be, like the brook that you hear Sing down the mountainside, lovely and clear. Yet in its music a poem should hold That which is felt but never be told. 1. title 詩名 2. line 行 3. stanza 詩節 4. rhyme 押韻字 5. imagery 意象 /ar/ /old/ / I r/

2. Find rhyming words for 1.king 2.foundation 3.cry

3. Fill in the missing words that rhyme with other lines. 1. They never taste, who always drink. They always talk, who never ______. 2.Here is to the happiest days of my life Spent in the arms of another man’s ____. (my mother) 3. There was an old owl who lived in an oak. The more he heard, the less he _______. The less he __ 同上格 __, the more he heard. Why aren’t we like that wise old ________? think wife spoke bird

4. Examples of Rhyming Poems

5. Times When I Want to Cry There are times when I want to cry, When my favorite pets die, When my friend tells me a lie, When my lover kisses me saying goodbye. Don ’ t cry! It ’ s just something in my eye.

6. Our Class Our class is lovely. The leader is lazy for study. Mr. Chou in the class is funny. Beauty Shaw is very sexy. New Guy is noisy like a turkey. So teachers are nearly crazy. But we are extremely happy.

7. The Gun I take my son To see my mom And Mom buys a gun To send my son. He takes the gun To shoot the sun. Mom takes the gun To kill my son. Oh! What fun!

8. A Bad Day It is Max that I call. I invite him to play basketball. He is taller than I after all. So I lose and bump into a wall. Then I am taken to the hospital. For my parents the doctors call And say I can not be cured at all.

9. A Wonderful Meet I saw a girl on the street. Her smile was so sweet That my heart crazily beat. I invited her to eat And we took a romantic seat. That made our feelings heat. Oh! What a wonderful meet!

10. It is your turn to write a rhyming poem. Finish by the end of class.