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Poem Builder

The Poem Builder will show you 3 flip cards to help you build a poem.

  1. The first card reveals the subject of the poem, a spark to ignite the imagination.
  2. The second card suggests a poetic form, a structure within which to shape the words.
  3. And the third card offers a bounty of language, a treasure trove of words to be woven into the fabric of the poem.

Hover over each image below to reveal the choices:

Look below the flip cards for the poetic form definition and how-to.

Subject:

Write about:

The human body and its functions

Poem Form:

In this format:

Limerick Poem

Definition: A limerick poem is a playful, lighthearted, humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy five-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA and a metrical pattern of anapestic meter.

How-to: To write a limerick, focus on the anapestic metrical pattern with three beats in the first and second lines and two beats in the third and fourth lines, and AABBA rhyme scheme with lines 1,2,5 rhyming and 3,4 rhyming. Let your imagination run wild and have fun with wordplay and humor. Remember to keep it silly and entertaining, and enjoy the process of writing it.

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Words:

Use these words:

  1. fire
  2. frost
  3. cello
  4. stained glass
  5. darken
  6. shake
  7. kiss
  8. timeless
  9. stinging
  10. oily

Limerick Poem

Definition: A limerick poem is a playful, lighthearted, humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy five-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA and a metrical pattern of anapestic meter.

How-to: To write a limerick, focus on the anapestic metrical pattern with three beats in the first and second lines and two beats in the third and fourth lines, and AABBA rhyme scheme with lines 1,2,5 rhyming and 3,4 rhyming. Let your imagination run wild and have fun with wordplay and humor. Remember to keep it silly and entertaining, and enjoy the process of writing it.

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