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When studying verb endings such as —ing or —ed, create poems where the monorhyme is the verb ending.
Write a class —ing poem, adding to it every day during the poetry unit. Or as long as there is interest.
One of the longest monorhyme poems is over 100 lines, with all lines ending in —ing.
Monorhyme poetry is a good opportunity to have the children focus on the one syllable they choose to rhyme.
Read the poems aloud so children can hear the meter (which doesn’t have to be any particular meter, but the reading aloud will help them recognize the characteristics of a poem when they create their own poetry).
Hand out copies of the poem so children can read to themselves at a pace where they can stop and think about the rhymes and the word choices.
Have the class work together to make a list of rhyming words on the board.
Then have the students work alone to make groups of rhyming words, suggesting that they think about how the words might go together in a poem.
Encourage students to create several groups of words, so they have plenty of resources when they to write their own monorhyme poetry.
There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction we are going.
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing.
Is it raining?
Is it snowing?
Is a hurricane a blowing?
Not a speck of light is showing
so the danger must be growing.
Are the fires of hell a glowing?
Is the grisly reaper mowing?
Yes! The danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing.
And they're certainly not showing
any signs that they are slowing!
A poem where all the lines end in the same rhyme
Rare in English, but common in Latin, Welsh and Arabic poetry.
There are many examples of monorhymes in “One Thousand and One Nights,” a source for traditional Arabic characters as Aladdin, Ali Baba and Scheherazade
The final word in each line rhymes.
There is no particular meter, and no set number of lines.