Poetry

In school we have been learning about poetry. We have been reading a poem every day from the book 'I am the Seed that Grew the Tree'. We started writing our own poetry too. We began with rhyming poetry, using the poem 'If I was a superhero' as our stimulus. We all wrote our own 'If I was a ...' poem and presented them in the shape of what our poem was about! They were fantastic!

We then studied Limericks and looked at the structure of them. Did you know that Limericks follow an AABBA pattern whereby the first, second and fifth lines rhyme and the third and fourth lines rhyme differently and are shorter in length? Here are some great examples:

Lettuce by Emmet Callan

We once had a turtle called Lettuce

Who ran back to the store where he met us

We raced him there

But he was fast as a hare

So in the race he bet us!

Finn by Marc Mullen

There once was a man named Finn

Who used to live in a bin

When people threw in their waste

He used to stuff his face

And that was the end of him!

The red breasted robin by Kieran Looby

There was a small little red breasted robin

whose head was always a bobbin

but when it snowed

His tiny neck froze

Poor little red breasted robin!

Scooby by Seán Mulrooney

There once was a dog named Scooby Doo

Who was scared of Winnie the Pooh

Although he knew clearly

That Pooh was not nearly

As scary as Mister Magoo

Young Boy from Dingle by Oisín Tuke

There was a young boy from Dingle

He said his nose would always tingle

He went to school

Thinking he was cool

Until he sneezed on his friend's Pringle