WHAT'S NEW?

(Click on the eyes)

SITEMAP

A-P

• Essays

• Narratives

• Photo

• Published articles

• Rhyming Verse

Beatles

• ESL ideas

• Quiz

• Albums

• Prayers

• Vocabulary

• Salvation or Hell?

• Life Before & After Death

• Humorous poems

Christmas

• Carols

• Fun Songs

• Poem

• Recipes

• Song by Darkness

• Traditions

Memory Aids & ESL Practice for:

• Dickens 

• D.H.Lawrence

• Shakespeare

• etc.

• Fiction

• Non-fiction

• Poetry

• Prayers

For Budding Authors & Poets

ESL/EFL/English Practice for Songs

Feedback Forums

Create your own forums to discuss subjects on this website and to practise your English

• rules

• practice

for fun ESL/EFL practice

Overview of ESL/EFL/special needs pedagogic ideas on this website

for different occasions & to avoid offending your listener

• Create your own worksheets

• Additional instructions

• ESL practice

• Classical

• Humorous 

A forum for budding authors & poets to add their work

RHYMING VERSE :  PINNOCHIO

Contributed by Maria Rosita Barone in English.  

Maria says:   I wrote the sentences, trying to have the same phonetic sound in every two sentences, where possible, to produce different simple sounds, particularly useful for children.  Children need to repeat sound patterns.  I have written other poems and the topics are specifically for children.  It is a way to give children from other countries and nationalities a chance to read and understand Italian culture

• Problems which can often occur are:

  • The use of unusual rhyming patterns.  The rhyming patterns of the following poem do not follow usual patterns. I have numbered the lines in the poem below to illustrate this.  Simple rhyming verse for children often rhymes as follows:

    • The final words in lines 2 & 4 rhyme with each other (eg: cat, hat)
    • Line 1 rhymes with line 2 & line 3 rhymes with line 4 (eg: rag, stag & hole, mole)
  • Stress & Intonation (See the notes below regarding the stress patterns in this poem)

  • L1 Interference:  logic, grammar, vocabulary, idiomatic expressions

  • Maintaining the continuity & sense of the words, whilst rhyming them.

• Of particular interest in Maria's poem are the use of unusual rhyming words (puppetry/poetry)

LINE

PINNOCHIO 

An original poem by Maria Barone

CORRESPONDING CORRECTIONS, SUGGESTIONS & COMMENTS BY BIBI

I'm a woody puppet  (3)

Who becomes a real boy (3)

My dad made me good (2)

• STRESS & INTONATION:  In addition to the phonetic rhyming words, each line usually has a similar number of stressed syllables, in order to match up the rhythm and timing of the lines.   The numbers of stressed syllables per line are shown in brackets.  They are not consistent in the above poem:

  • Lines 1-5 follow the limerick pattern

  • Lines 5-8 & 9-12 do not follow any specific pattern

• Nevertheless, Maria's efforts are very interesting.  Well done!

EXCEPTION:   

Some rhyming verses follow special rhythms, eg: limericks which have the following pattern:  

• lines 1, 2 and 5 are long with a similar number of stressed syllables.

• lines 4 & 5 are short with a similar number of stressed syllables

A WELL-KNOWN EXAMPLE OF A LIMERICK

1.  Dr. Foster went to Gloucester  (4 stresses)

2.  In a shower of rain (4 stresses)

3.  He stepped in a puddle  (2 stresses)

4. Right up to his middle  (2 stresses)

5. And never went there again  (4 stresses)

NOTE:  Phonetic rhyming patterns are as follows in limericks: 

• lines 2 & 5 rhyme

• lines 3 & 4 rhyme, although the above example uses poetic licence

More poetry

• Richard Harris Barham: The Jackdaw of Rheims

• Miranda Maxfield  When

• Maria Barone Pinnochio

• Mitchie Arcaina  Forlorn

• Apramita Chand: Graceful Nature, Money

• Chris Davies A View From Afar

• Ginger Dean Overcome With Love

• Jessica Blalock Strong Woman

• Joshua Ward Shadows