Who could barely even sing a tune.
Though out from his throat,
He belted a note,
And the stars didn’t return until June.
Most of the poems that I had written previous to this one were very lovely, but more serious. I wanted something humorous and light and remembered learning how to write limericks from previous school years. A limerick is a poem where the first, second, and last lines rhyme, and the third and fourth rhyme. There is the metrical foot consisting of two unaccented or short syllables followed by one stressed or long syllable: da-da-dum; the first two lines are three anapests, the second two are two anapests, and the last line is three. Limericks are usually funny as well. I wrote about the man in the moon trying to sing, but scaring all the stars away because he was so bad. I always found poems about people attempting to sing and are bad, funny, because I don't exactly have the nicest voice in the world. This poem may be relate able to a lot of people!
HAHA great job Paulina! I thought the delivery of the joke was very well placed, and you used the structure of the limerick skillfully to help with your joke. I also like the syllable arrangement, which gives it a nice and light bounce when reading aloud. Well Done!
ReplyDeleteThis was a really fun read! I liked the humour and your use of elements of your theme (stars, moon) in the poem. I thought that the poem was really fluent and told a story concisely. Great work!
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