Little cat swung
on a crescent moon
singing a jolly,
happy tune.
She sang low,
she sang high
to the stars
in the moonlit sky.
I went to sleep last night thinking about this poem. Originally the poem was an excuse to use the line while eating custard pie. But as the night wore on, I rewrote the poem to a Halloween poem with pumpkin pie, and this morning in a brilliant job of editing, I got rid of the pie. (How can you sing and eat pie at the same time? It is like eating crackers and trying to whistle.) So then I rearranged the lines and ended up with an a-a, b-b rhyming pattern. I did try a,b, a, b, but I didn't like that as well. I could have used longer (fewer) lines, but I like these shorter lines for early readers. You could make the argument that my rhyme scheme now is a, b, c, b for two stanzas, but I'll hold with the idea that what I really have here is rhyming couplets. I have this theory that most rhyming children's poetry is written in couplets and the a,b,a,b pattern is really a couplet with internal rhyme. Any comments?
Your poetry challenge is to write a poem about an animal in the sky. (A Rhino in the sky with diamonds, maybe.) Have fun writing.
I can see it so well, Joy, and you should illustrate it! Beautiful image. I'll see about a poem tomorrow!
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ReplyDeleteYou put so much into each poem. What a special gift to your readers. Thank you!
Ah, Linda. You flatter me. Thank you.
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