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make a poem about autumn and feeling trapped in a area you love
Review the rubric to make sure you’re including the required elements. Here are some ideas:
Figurative Language:
Imagery
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Symbolism
Oxymoron
Sound devices:
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
Repetition
Rhyme
Meter
Organize your poem. Choose a format. Here are some of the options:
Rhyming poetry
Ballad
Sonnet
Limerick
Ode
Non-rhyming poetry
Cinquain
Haiku
Sestina
Free Verse
Other
Narrative
Epic
**You’ll be submitting TWO original poems.**
Must have Check My Work link or -2 points.
Submit both poems on one document.
Brainstorm topics. Here are some ideas:
Night or daytime
A particular color
Being underwater
Growing older
The feeling of getting lost in a book
Playing a favorite game (or video game)
Something that you see outside your window
A favorite season
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Rubric
Review the rubric to make sure you’re including the required elements. Here are some ideas:
What to include in a poem. Figurative Language:
Imagery
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Symbolism
Oxymoron
Sound devices:
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
Repetition
Rhyme
Meter
Choose a format. Here are some of the options
Rhyming poetry
Ballad
Sonnet
Limerick
Ode
Non-rhyming poetry
Cinquain
Haiku
Sestina
Free Verse
Other
Narrative
Epic
Make sure your poem has:
Directions: Use the rubric below as a guide in writing, revising, and finalizing your poems.
Category Features Teacher Comments Points
Poetic Form
___ Structure (number of stanzas, stanza length,
rhyme scheme) reflects the chosen poetic form.
___ All characteristics of the chosen form are
adhered to.
___ The form lends itself well to the subject of the
poem.
(3 possible)
_________
Structure of
Poetry
___ Line breaks are used appropriately for the form.
___ Structural elements such as rhyme scheme,
meter, and stanza length are consistent throughout
the poem.
(2 possible)
_________
Poetic
Elements
___ Writing includes vivid examples of figurative
language such as similes, onomatopoeias, and
personification.
___ Writing includes effective use of sound devices
such as alliteration and assonance.
___ Writing includes strong imagery.
(3 possible)
_________
Use of
Language
___ The diction in the poem helps to convey the
mood and/or tone.
___ Punctuation is used correctly.
___ Sensory language conveys vivid imagery.
___ Writing is free of clichés.
(4
__
possible)
_______
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Revising and
Editing
___ Correct spelling is used.
___ Writing is presented in a readable format.
(2 possible)
_________
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Poem 1 — Sonnet: "Gilded Gate of October"
The maples form a fence that smells like home,
Their rustle, crunch—crack!—a hollow hymn of leaves;
I pace a path I know as if compelled to roam,
By orange lamps that promise warmth and yet reprieves.
Each gust nudges memories like secret bees,
They sting with sweetness, scalding like a brand;
A gilded cage where every window breathes,
And ivy inks my name into the land.
I call this yard a sanctuary and a snare,
Its boundaries bend with a familiar guilt;
I love each decaying brilliance, bright and bare—
A harvest of small freedoms slowly wilt.
Oh autumn, you are mercy and brick—my shove;
I am both your captive and your constancy of love.
Poem 2 — Free Verse Ode: "Alley of Amber"
You hold me — an alley of amber and iron, beloved trap.
Leaves drum, whisper, sigh: crunch, drip, hush.
The air tastes like old paper and woodsmoke, sweet and sharp, a familiar ache.
Your fences hum with memory; your porches wear twilight like a coat.
I know every crooked step, every gate that squeals hello (and good-bye).
Streets here are veins; the town is the palm that cupped me as a child —
and now the palm closes just enough to keep me warm and keep me in.
I have been here for a thousand yesterdays — no, for one endless yesterday —
a hyperbole that matters only to a heart that measures time by footprints.
Sometimes I imagine leaving: I fold my hands, I practice the goodbye,
but the pavement breathes out an old song and my feet mistake it for a map.
Like a pocket turned inside out, this place holds me close and spills my edges.
Oxymoron: sweet trap, familiar stranger — I kiss the corners I cannot cross.
The orchard-silence—soft, savage—sways; apples thud like small drums of warning.
I hear the chapel bell, distant and near, and the sound makes me ache to step and to stay.
I love you. I love you. I love you — the phrase gnaws at the gate's hinge.
You are my map and my margin, my horizon and my wall.
If being trapped must wear the color of something I adore, let it be autumn;
let it be the slow burn of amber light, the hush that holds me like a hand.
Formats and devices included
- Poem 1: Sonnet (14 lines, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG). Uses imagery, simile ("memories like secret bees"), metaphor ("gilded cage"), personification ("window breathes"), onomatopoeia ("crack"), alliteration, consonance, assonance, hyperbole, oxymoron ("decaying brilliance/sweet ache" implied), rhyme and near-meter.
- Poem 2: Free verse ode. Uses imagery, simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia ("crunch, drip, hush"), alliteration, consonance, assonance, repetition, hyperbole, symbolism (leaves/fence), and oxymoron ("sweet trap," "familiar stranger").
If you want, I can tweak either poem to use a stricter meter, add more explicit examples of a specific device, or make them shorter/longer for submission.
The maples form a fence that smells like home,
Their rustle, crunch—crack!—a hollow hymn of leaves;
I pace a path I know as if compelled to roam,
By orange lamps that promise warmth and yet reprieves.
Each gust nudges memories like secret bees,
They sting with sweetness, scalding like a brand;
A gilded cage where every window breathes,
And ivy inks my name into the land.
I call this yard a sanctuary and a snare,
Its boundaries bend with a familiar guilt;
I love each decaying brilliance, bright and bare—
A harvest of small freedoms slowly wilt.
Oh autumn, you are mercy and brick—my shove;
I am both your captive and your constancy of love.
Poem 2 — Free Verse Ode: "Alley of Amber"
You hold me — an alley of amber and iron, beloved trap.
Leaves drum, whisper, sigh: crunch, drip, hush.
The air tastes like old paper and woodsmoke, sweet and sharp, a familiar ache.
Your fences hum with memory; your porches wear twilight like a coat.
I know every crooked step, every gate that squeals hello (and good-bye).
Streets here are veins; the town is the palm that cupped me as a child —
and now the palm closes just enough to keep me warm and keep me in.
I have been here for a thousand yesterdays — no, for one endless yesterday —
a hyperbole that matters only to a heart that measures time by footprints.
Sometimes I imagine leaving: I fold my hands, I practice the goodbye,
but the pavement breathes out an old song and my feet mistake it for a map.
Like a pocket turned inside out, this place holds me close and spills my edges.
Oxymoron: sweet trap, familiar stranger — I kiss the corners I cannot cross.
The orchard-silence—soft, savage—sways; apples thud like small drums of warning.
I hear the chapel bell, distant and near, and the sound makes me ache to step and to stay.
I love you. I love you. I love you — the phrase gnaws at the gate's hinge.
You are my map and my margin, my horizon and my wall.
If being trapped must wear the color of something I adore, let it be autumn;
let it be the slow burn of amber light, the hush that holds me like a hand.
Formats and devices included
- Poem 1: Sonnet (14 lines, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG). Uses imagery, simile ("memories like secret bees"), metaphor ("gilded cage"), personification ("window breathes"), onomatopoeia ("crack"), alliteration, consonance, assonance, hyperbole, oxymoron ("decaying brilliance/sweet ache" implied), rhyme and near-meter.
- Poem 2: Free verse ode. Uses imagery, simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia ("crunch, drip, hush"), alliteration, consonance, assonance, repetition, hyperbole, symbolism (leaves/fence), and oxymoron ("sweet trap," "familiar stranger").
If you want, I can tweak either poem to use a stricter meter, add more explicit examples of a specific device, or make them shorter/longer for submission.
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