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Horse: A Champion in His Field

28 January 2012

This descriptive ‘story’ poem uses rhythm to give emphasis to the subject, and is FULL of figurative language.  It includes an enormous amount of alliteration, imagery and metaphors, with a small amount of personification and word play.

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Healthy Food

28 January 2012

The humour in this silly healthy food poem is in the use of lots of word play and hyperbole (exaggeration for effect), with the occasional metaphor, and a tiny amount of alliteration.

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Guessing Game

27 January 2012

How soon can you guess the animal from the clues in this rhyming, descriptive haiku?

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Highlighted Snowdrop Poem (Personification)

27 January 2012

This is a duplication of my Good Morning Little Snowdrop poem, showing all of the personification examples in bold text and the alliteration examples in the refrains underlined.

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Good Morning Little Snowdrop

27 January 2012

This beautiful snowdrop poem is a great example of personification poetry, whilst including some alliteration in the refrains, and one example of word play (leaves)

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Evacuee’s Postcard Home

27 January 2012

    This creative shape poem hints at the stiff upper lip attitude, as well as the boy’s eagerness to reassure Mum.  It includes lots of emotion, plus creative word play in the address.

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Cobwebs

26 January 2012

This simple rhyming children’s acrostic poem about spiders includes a simile and a small amount of alliteration.

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Child Mine Workers

25 January 2012

    This senses poem includes lots of figurative language such as personification, adjectives, alliteration and metaphors that the children of Swinton Fitzwilliam Primary school gave me during a poetry workshop about life down the mines for the poor Victorian children in Britain.

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The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

24 January 2012

The Butterfly Life Cycle I wrote this poem especially to help children to learn the facts about the butterfly life cycle, from emerging as a caterpillar right through to metamorphosis into a butterfly. The poem uses  lots of alliteration and some metaphors and is particularly good for children to use in sequencing each event, as […]

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Bradley Mulladley Mulloon

24 January 2012

  Bradley Mulladley Mulloon This is known as a nonsense poem for obvious reasons!  One of my favourite poets is Dr Seuss who wrote “The Cat in The Hat”, and I’ve tried to copy his style here by repeating one rhyming phoneme all the way through, spelt in the same way.  Dr Seuss often did […]

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