Writing Lab

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Writing Lab

• Forms of Poetry

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• A limerick is a fun poem that has five lines.
  Lines one, two and five have three strong
  downbeats, and the ends rhyme. Lines two and four
  have two strong downbeats and the ends rhyme

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• There once was a boy named OToole
• Who didnt act smart when at school.
• He tried to read books
• But got dirty looks
• And he grew up to be quite a fool.

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• Anna Maria from France
• Hated to sing and to dance
• But she boogied one day
• What an awful display
• When her neighbor set fire to her pants!

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• 11.
• My friend plays guitar,
• He played a gig in a bar.
• He did quite bad,
• He got so sad
• And now he lives in his car.

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• I root for a team named Philly,
• Who made the Dodgers look silly.
• They have bigger guns
• Which score more runs
• And the Dodgers wilted like lilies.

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Assignment

• Write a Limerick. A Limerick is a fun poem that
  has five lines. Lines one, two and five have
  three strong downbeats, and the ends rhyme. Lines
  three and four have two strong downbeats and the
  ends rhyme.