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Making Pleasing Sounds
Try these different strategies to make your poem fun to hear:
Rhyme 🟪 Choose perfect rhymes (like days and rays) as well as near rhymes (like dark and clock).
Some days are full of rays of sun.
But some are dark around the clock.
Repeating Sounds 🟪 Repeating words can add special sound to a poem:
My dog said his day was Ruff, ruff, ruff!”
My cat said, “Let meout, meout, meout!”
Repeating consonant sounds helps, too: 🟪
People put deep dreams on shallow paper.
Making Comparisons
Here are some of the special ways poets make comparisons in their poems: