Name: ___________________
Hour: ___
Name: ___________________
Hour: ___
DIRECTIONS: Read the poem below. Then,
DIRECTIONS: Read the poem below. Then,
underline or highlight each instance of end
rhyme in a different color.
underline or highlight each instance of simile
in orange and personification in yellow.
EXAMPLE: Something told the wild geese
It was time to go.
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered, — “Snow.”
The words “go” and “snow” would be
underlined or highlighted in the same color, as
both of these words rhyme together.
“Something Told the Wild Geese”
RACHEL FIELD
Something told the wild geese
It was time to go.
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered, — “Snow.”
Leaves were green and stirring,
Berries, luster-flossed,
But beneath warm feathers
Something cautioned, — “Frost.”
All the sagging orchards
Steamed with amber spice,
But each wild breast stiffened
At remembered ice.
Something told the wild geese
It was time to fly, —
Summer sun was on their wings,
Winter in their cry.
“Change”
CHARLOTTE ZOLOTOW
The summer
still hangs
heavy and sweat
with sunlight
as it did last year.
The autumn
still comes
showering gold and crimson
as it did last year.
The winter
still stings
clean and cold and white
as it did last year.
The spring
still comes
like a whisper in the dark night.
It is only I
who have changed.