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'The Secret Garden' by Frances Hodgson Burnet
The Secret Garden is a book with amazing imagery. I have a beautiful hardback slipcase edition with watercolour pictures! This book is about a youn...
Planets Speeding
This poem was written as War Poetry (Week 3) homework. I am not too proud of it and I think it could be better. It features a four syllable refrain (In poetry, a refrain is a word, line or phrase that is repeated within the lines or stanzas of the poem itself), which is 'Planets speeding'-the name of my poem!
Michael Morpurgo, Twist of Gold
This is my favourite book written by Michael Morpurgo. Sean and Annie O'Brien have no choice but to escape from the potato famine in Ireland, but t...
Believe... A Sonnet
This nonsense poem that I wrote follows the pattern of a Shakespearean Sonnet.* I'm afraid I did break Iambic Pentameter (Pentameter means "consisting of five measures" and iambic is the rhythm which words in the line are measured, in small groups of syllables called "feet") in every verse though! This is the first sonnet I've ever written. I did it as a homework piece for poetry. It was quite difficult but I also enjoyed it. I used an ABAB rhyme pattern as used in a classic Shakespearean Sonnet.
*A sonnet is a poem with 14 lines that has a particular structure. In a Shakespearean sonnet, the first line rhymes with its 3rd line, its 2nd line with its 4th line and so on. This set of four lines is called a quatrain. The last two lines are a couplet (a pair of rhyming lines).