Playing with Poetry

Part One: Poetry Vocab
Look up and define the following words:
Rhythm
Rhyme scheme
Alliteration
Anaphora
Consonance
Assonance
You can define these on your blogs or in your notebooks.

Part Two: Playing with Poetry

1. Type out your poem on a word document.
2. Mess around with it; play with it- add lines, take out words.
3. Try to add some alliteration, assonance, consonance, anaphora, rhythm, rhyme scheme.
4. Try to incorporate the metaphor you are using in each stanza
5. Try NOT to say “ Our love is like a lion”
6. Put it on your blog.