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Our mystery poet:

Willy Wonka!

Using verb endings

Teaching Monorhyme Poetry

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.

Rhyming words

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.

Remember this?

Monorhyme Poetry

Here’s one of the more famous recitations of a monorhyme poem:

Erase

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!

By Ilene Bauer

From www.poetrysoup.com

As a writer, I embrace,

To help me when I’m way off base,

A pencil with, in proper place,

A pink expunging saving grace.

For up my sleeve, it is the ace

Which helps me more than just a trace.

Yes, I’d be lost if in this space

I was not able to erase.

We pencil users must keep pace

With techno-geeks or face disgrace.

Erasers keep us in the race.

Cut to the chase – I rest my case!

By Jane Enos

If I Could Paint The Sky

BACKGROUND

By Barbara Gorelick

From www.poetrysoup.com

If I could paint the winter sky today

I'd chose soft apricot instead of gray

With my brush spring would come to play

Each stroke bringing all the colors seen in May

Oh, If I could only paint the winter sky today...

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

CHARACTERISTICS

The final word in each line rhymes.

There is no particular meter, and no set number of lines.

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