Poems can be set up in special ways. Stanzas are groups of lines. Lines might include a specific number of syllables or might vary in length. Poems use sounds in special ways. A rhyme scheme is the rhyming pattern at the ends of the lines
Answer the questions about page 147 of Adventures with Words.
Question 1
1.
Which words rhyme in “There was an Old Man with a Beard”?
Question 2
2.
What rhyme scheme does the poem have? What kind of poem has this rhyme scheme?
Question 3
3.
What other element of a limerick does this poem have?
Question 4
4.
What type of poem is “My Journal”? How do you know?
Answer the questions about pages 148–150 of Adventures with Words.
Question 5
5.
How does the shape of “In the Land of Words” match the ideas in the poem?
Question 6
6.
How is a similar image created in “I Go to the Land” on page 150?
Question 7
7.
What form are each of these poems? How do you know?