1. Poetry Out Loud
Kacey Cowley

2. Catch a Little Rhyme
Once upon a time I caught a little rhyme I set it on the floor but it ran right out the door I chased it on my bicycle But it melted to an icicle I scooped it up into my hat But it turned into a cat
I caught it by the tail
But it stretched into a whale
I followed it in a boat
But it changed into a goat
When I fed it tin and paper
It became a tall skyscraper
Then it grew into a kite
And flew far out of sight

3. Eve Merriam (7/19/1916 – 4/11/1992) American poet and writer.
Her First book, Family Circle, won the Yale Younger Poets Prize.
Published a total of 88 books.
Her book , The Inner City Mother Goose, inspired a 1982 Broadway musical called, Inner City.
Died in 1992 from liver cancer.
5th recipient of NCTE award
Poetryatplay.org

4. Catch a Little Rhyme
Literal meaning- this poem is literally about rhyming.
Figurative meaning- the speaker is talking about catching rhymes, so she probably is talking about trying to rhyme.

5. Rhyme “I set it on the floor But it ran right out the door” End rhyme
Couplets

6. Imagery The rhyme has stretched into a whale
The rhyme turned into a tall skyscraper

7. Imagery It turned into a kite and flew far out of site.
It turned into a cat

8. Personification
“ I set it on the floor but it ran right out the door.”
“..but it melted into an icicle”
“..it turned into a cat”
“..it stretched into a whale”
A rhyme cannot run.
A rhyme can’t melt
A rhyme can’t physically change.
A rhyme can’t stretch.

9. Personification (continued)
“…it changed into a goat”
“..it became a tall skyscraper”
“..grew into a kite”
“..flew far out of sight”
A rhyme cannot change into a goat
A rhyme cannot become a skyscraper
A rhyme cannot grow or become a kite
A rhyme can’t fly

10. Catch a Little Rhyme
Purpose- to show that even though the rhyme was “changing” it was still a rhyme.
Theme- Things can change within a matter of seconds, but even though its different over all whatever it is its still the same

11. Meanings
Literal- In this poem Eve Merriam is talking about how many different times a rhyme can change and how many different things a rhyme can change into.
Figurative- I see this as she is daydreaming and the way it is changing through her own mind and at the end when the kite flew away that would be the end of her daydream and when she comes back to reality.

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