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4. Poetry says things in special ways.

Poets will sometimes create special word pictures by making comparisons. They may write a metaphor or a simile, like “She wiggled like a puppy.” Can you figure out which things are being compared in the following examples?

Tree Thoughts
Branches trade touches in air
Roots share secrets in earth
Neurons of the forest, thinking
—A. J. White

sunflower seeds, peanuts,
chicken, watermelon—
little tolls I pay for passage
to a crow’s heart
—Josh Jones

5. Poetry pleases the ear.

Poets carefully arrange words until their poems sound just right. Sometimes they use words that rhyme. Sometimes they repeat certain vowel and consonant sounds to make their poems sound pleasing. Notice how this repetition of sounds works in the poem called “Grandma’s Porch.”

Grandma’s Porch
Sun streams gently through metal mesh
to warm a wicker love seat and chair,
loved too much by cats’ claws.

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