Abcd poem

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • What are ABCD rhymes? The alphabet-based poems or abcd rhymes used in songs with music are known as ABCD rhymes. It proves to be a great learning help for the children besides being a method of recreation for them. Alphabet rhymes are popular in English and many other languages. Such songs are ideal for small children studying in Learn: Who introduced ABCD rhymes? The ABCD rhymes have been taught to children at least for the last 200 years. No particular country or person can be credited for inventing this teaching mode for little children. Since the first copyright of A.B.C. rhyme was done in 1835 by What are the benefits of Alphabet rhymes? This genre of rhymes has great educational value for little children and those studying in Kindergartens. The little children take great interest in such rhymes as they find it a part of their play. This is the reason playschools in almost all parts of the world use the ABCD rhymes as a part of classroom education and also for outdoor singing in school compounds. It has the following proven benefits for little children: • They sing and play while they learn. • It helps them memorize the alphabet in a rhythmic and musical way. • Little children find it fun to sing such songs. In the process of singing, they learn the alphabetical order of their languages including English. • This type of song creates an excellent teacher-student rapport. Children become more open and franker with the ...

“Still I Rise” is a poem by the American civil rights activist and writer Maya Angelou. One of Angelou's most acclaimed works, the poem was published in Angelou’s third poetry collection And Still I Rise in 1978. Broadly speaking, the poem is an assertion of the dignity and resilience of marginalized people in the face of oppression. Because Angelou often wrote about blackness and black womanhood, "Still I Rise" can also be read more specifically as a critique of anti-black racism. • Where this theme appears in the poem: • Line 4 • Line 5 • Line 7 • Line 8 • Line 17 • Lines 19-20 • Lines 22-23 • Line 25 • Lines 27-28 • Line 29 • Line 31 • Lines 33-34 • Line 35 • Lines 39-40 • Line-by-Line Explanation & Analysis of “Still I Rise” • Lines 1-4 You may write ... ... dust, I'll rise. Where metaphor appears in the poem: • Line 21: “You may shoot me with your words” • Line 22: “You may cut me with your eyes,” • Line 23: “You may kill me with your hatefulness” • Line 29: “the huts of history’s shame” • Line 33: “I'm a black ocean” • Line 40: “I am the dream and the hope of the slave” • Simile Where simile appears in the poem: • Line 4: “like dust, I'll rise” • Lines 7-8: “I walk like I've got oil wells / Pumping in my living room” • Line 9: “Just like moons and like suns” • Lines 11-12: “Just like hopes springing high, / Still I'll rise” • Lines 19-20: “I laugh like I've got gold mines / Diggin’ in my own backyard” • Line 24: “like air, I’ll rise” • Lines 27-28: “I dance like I've...

Alphabet Poems An ABC poem is a poem where each line of the poem begins with a letter in the alphabet, starting with A and moving in order through Z. Each line focuses on building upon the central topic of the poem, creating a specific mood, feeling, or picture in the reader’s mind. There are various types of ABC (or Alphabet) poems. Some use all 26 letters, while others only use 5-6 of the letters in alphabetical order. Abecedarian Poems will always use all 26 letters. Try It Yourself! Templates for writing ABC Poems (PDF): • • 11 ABC Poems Examples - Alphabet Poems

There are a number of rhyme schemes used in poetry; some of the most popular of which include: • Alternate rhyme: It is also known as ABAB rhyme scheme, it rhymes as “ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH.” • Ballade: It contains three stanzas with the rhyme scheme of “ABABBCBC” followed by “BCBC.” • Monorhyme: It is a poem in which every line uses the same rhyme scheme. • • Triplet: It often repeats like a • Enclosed rhyme: It uses rhyme scheme of “ABBA” • Terza rima rhyme scheme: It uses tercets, three lines stanzas. Its interlocking pattern on end words follows: ABA BCB CDC DED and so on. • Keats • • Short Examples of Rhyme Scheme • The sun is shining bright This is a lovely sight. • You are like a day of May And I as worthless as hay. • This is poor Mr. Potter Walking a road with his daughter. • Sometimes, your unspoken word Is more important than that heard. • Little boy wants to eat cakes Whenever he from sleep awakes. • I saw a tree that to God doth say I want the Lord to accept my pray. • I think I can never see Something as free as a sea. • After so many days of It took so long is if came from Spain. • The green garden lets its shade fall Over the red old school hall. • There flows the river That’s amongst the greatest giver. Rhyme Scheme and Formal Verse In poetic language or poetry, perfect rhyme is that in which a stressed vowel in two words or phrases occurring close to each other is similar. This is also called Contrary to the perfect rhyme, a slant rhyme or imperfect rhyme in...

A lthough the skies appear blue, B lueish white, with cottony hue. C oloured orange, with fainted red D azzles bright at each sunset. E vening sky, intensely blue, F ainted is the sunset hue. G lowworms dance, adorn the hue H appiness spreads in the world anew I nto this landscapic purplish blue. J uggling, days K lucking nights L ying stunned in this hue so right M an, the creature, so curiously few. N o matter it's a day or two, some hues amaze like a landscapic view! O range red, with deep yellow in blue, P early stars, adorn the view. Q uilty cold, in the days with dew R osemary looks majestically new! S un, the ball of fire for few T eaches, turns a page each new, U nknown, interesting, perceivable to few V anity is so pale, to take, W ander, wither, breath well each day. X mas may not come each day, Y awn, smile, admire all days, as uncertain are night somedays Z**enith meets only the braves, let zephyrs cuddle, embrace your zealousy face. ABC Poem/Alphabetical poem: ABC poetry is a short form of poetry. It is normally written to show feeling. It contains five to six lines in each stanza. You may begin your poem with any letter of the alphabet. The next three lines must follow sequence. So if you start with the letter "G" the next line must start with the letter "H". The last line can begin with any letter of the alphabet. ______________________________________________ Example : Remembrance Sleepless, fitful nights, (first four lines follow the order of the alphabet)...