This is not a Sonnet

This is a poem Amanda and I wrote about how to describe a poem. We used student examples to base our structure on. We also used the terms we learned about poetry to help describe a poem and also used those terms in the poem.

A poem is...

Made up of words

Which then is turned into lines

That eventually morphs into stanzas

And the stanzas then creates a poem

A poem is...

Like a murky lake

In which you can not see the bottom

because it is so deep.

A poem is...

Comprised of Alliteration, Allusions, and Apostrophe

It can be an Ode or Elegy to someone you love

It may have meter or rhyme to set the mood

It might have a metaphor or simile to set the tone

It could give personification to a tree or a chair

A poem is..

A snappy Hiaku

A long Neruda

An instructional How-to

Or a standard sonnet