Written Assignment: Rhyming Nouns First, fill in the chart, providing words in columns A and B that rhyme with the nouns on the left. Use nouns only.

Column A Column B
1. beach
2. crowd
3. noise
4. sand
5. color
6. waves
7. sun
8. summer
9. sports
10. shore
Now, use the following strategies to check that the words you have chosen are nouns.

Are they people, places or things?
Can you count them?
Can you put the words a, an, or the ahead of them?
Finally, create a poem using at least 10 of your new nouns. Highlight or underline all the nouns in your poem.

“tell me o swan, your ancient tale” by kabir “the swan” by rilke “spanish dancer” by rilke “your laughter” by pablo neruda “birthplace” by shaffarzadeh “it’s this way” by nazim hikmet “counting small-boned bodies” by robert bly choose two poems that you would like to write about. analyze each poem. study the perspective, or point of view, of the speaker in each of the two poems that you select for this assignment. consider these questions: who is the speaker in each of these poems? what is the speaker’s tone? is there a conflict? is there a message? what does each of the poems have in common? what is different about each of the poems? which literary devices are used in the poems? are these literary devices found in both of the poems? what does the speaker hope to achieve in each of the poems? how are these achievements/goals been met? directions: using the two poems of your choosing, write a clear, concise, two hundred and fifty word essay that compares and contrasts the two poems. make sure you include at least two of the following to support your thesis: tone, point of view, literary devices, and meter.