This week year 4 have been looking at poetry again. We have written some list poems but today have been using powerful imagery to create Tanka. A ‘Tanka’ is a Japanese style of verse that dates back to the 5th Century. They traditionally contain 5 lines and 31 syllables in a 5-7-5-7-7 fixed syllable pattern.
We wrote this as a class
Snow capped volcano
Towering emerald trees
Candyfloss like clouds
Shimmering saphire water
Relaxed by the ocean waves
The white winged cranes fly
In the stell grey sky above
Tiny balls of snow
Cover the long brown branches
Makes me feel happy inside
by Darcy
Saphire deep water
Towering emerald trees
Candyfloss like clouds
Gigantic bulging mountain
Relaxed by the icy waves
by Bethany
4 comments:
very good poems darcy and bethany i hope you are proud of the i really like the way your imagination is. keep up the good work!!!
I really enjoyed reading Darcy and Bethany's Tanka poems they were very good. Good work!!!!!!
i realy enjoyed the tanka poems i realy liked reading darcys
I really liked it that me and Darcy's tanka poem got to go on the blog I didn't think it was that good. Oh and by the way Caitlin Lyons helped me on the 4th line thanks alot Caitlin!!!!
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