Poetry Portfolio By: Griffin Moore Mrs.

West Due: 11/18/2011 4th Period

1. Cinquain School Bells School bells The time we run To get to our next class Late we enter hearing them sing Late Bells a b c d a Personification

2. Skeltonic Verse The red and black shack Red and Black My friend Jack Has a red and black Hacky sack In his back pack And red and black And like a bat That sat On his door mat That is flat In his room It looks like a doom And went boom Look at his car It looks par In a red and black World by mack Whos friends with jack In a shack Of Red and black a a a a a a b b b b c c c d d a a a a a Simile Onomatopeia Polysyndeton Polysyndeton

3. Common Meter Ballad Stanza My locked life My life in here goes in and out I never would have known I see a girl running about A tree. My heart beats atone a b a b

She is the love of my locked life I live in a high room With a window whom who no one sees With a blind eye at doom

c d c d Anaphora Anaphora

I have a master who wont come His love is a Sharpe knife But books are the only gift he gives I guess he has no life f e f

e metaphor

4. Terza Rima The game People who go to the games are the real fans I wish I was a real fan just like fame My friend that goes to school with all the rams a b a

But I go to all the real Georgia games I see the players out on the green grass All I can think of is how Im in shame

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All the people in here have the same mass Im not talking about their size or weight Im talking about the heart of a lass

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All the fans just have to wait to see fate As the time goes on everyone is on The edge of their seat just to stay even late

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Time runs out and everyone is a upon The real fact is that people play on their lawn

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5. Sonnet Summer In the Summer I go out on the boat It is where I spend most of my nights and days In the Winter the rain is not a mote To bring the water level back to pay a b a b

But the Spring is what I wait for all Winter For the lake is to be what I want forever Everyone wants someone to jump in the water No no is what everyone says before their fever

c d c d alliteration & iteratio

Most dont know that it is too cold at the time Summer is time for fun and party Its where the boat is the best part for everyone Its a good thing school is not in or else Id be tardy

e f e f synecdoche

In the Summer we dont know what to do But all we know is that it will be new

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meiosis meiosis

6. Pindaric ode I have a teacher who Gives us homework all the time I dont know what to do with it So instead Ill just take a dime If I dont do it shell give Me nothing good So I will just go home and And get to work and do my homework Getting out the paper books Is work, but I would do it And so I dont get in trouble Home work a b c b d e f e g h g