Writing 131
Example Poems
Cinquain poem
A cinquain poem has five lines and the pattern is:
1st line = one word
2nd line = two words 3rd line = three words 4th line = five words 5th line = one word War
Terrible, hateful
Killing, injuring, destroying
A thing that ends life
Murder
Diamante poem
A diamante poem has seven lines with an inbuilt antonym feature between the first
and the last line. The pattern is:
1st line = one word
2nd line = two words
3rd line = three words
4th line = four words
5th line = three words
6th line = two words
7th line = one word Winter
snowy, cold
Skiing, skating, sledding
Mountains, wind, beach, ocean
Surfing, swimming, windsurfing
Sunny, hot
Summer
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More ideas for antonym pairs:
pupil/teacher; school days/holidays; woman/man, old/young; peace/war; Beauty/
Beast; mother/daughter; father/son; Sunday/Monday; rain/sun; house/flat; dog/cat;
day/night
Haiku
A haiku poem has three lines and the pattern is five, seven, five syllables.
1st line = five syllables
2nd line = seven syllables 3rd line = five syllables Going up, then down
Meeting blue sky and green earth
Mixing sun and rain.
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