What are poems?
Your poem can be about anything - a thought, an emotion or a story.
Poems can rhyme, use alliteration or rhythm but they don't have to.
Watch: Learn how to write a poem
What is a poem?
This is a chef. He's not going to make food though. No. He is going to make a poem.
Stop that!
The main ingredient in a poem is words.
Poems can be about anything: they can tell a story or they can be a thought you had, or an emotion you felt.
But a poem can't exist without words.
So make sure you put plenty of them in.
THE! A! BUT! IS!
Some poems rhyme. That means words that sound the same.
Branch! Lunch!
Now we鈥檙e getting somewhere. Next we need rhythm.
So the words can sound fast like 'tiny speckled bird' or they can drag like 'the snake slides slowly'.
Season with alliteration鈥his is when you string together words which have the same first letter or sound, like 'the snake slides slowly'鈥nd I think we鈥檙e done.
'The tiny speckled bird flits from branch to branch, The snake slides slowly looking for its lunch'.
Words, rhyme, and rhythm: that's how you make a poem.
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