Assignment

QUATRAIN - a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.

Here is an example:

  Today I Had a Rotten Day

      by Kenn Nesbitt  

   

Today I had a rotten day     (A)

as I was coming in from play.     (A)

I accidentally stubbed my toes     (B)

and tripped and fell and whacked my nose.     (B)

I chipped a tooth. I cut my lip.

I scraped my knee. I hurt my hip.

I pulled my shoulder, tweaked my ear,

and got a bruise upon my rear.

I banged my elbow, barked my shin.

A welt is forming on my chin.

My pencil poked me in the thigh.

I got an eyelash in my eye.

I sprained my back. I wrenched my neck.

I’m feeling like a total wreck.

So that’s the last time I refuse

when teacher says to tie my shoes.

Here is my own poem:

Lost

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Why am I feeling this?

Why am I thinking like this?

Those are the questions in my mind

and still the answers I can't find.

Do I deserved to feel this?

Do I deserved to think like this?

Please answer me my friend

So that my agony will end.

It bothers me all the time,

And I know it's a waste of time.

I can't help on being affected

because my heart is so infected.

I don't want this feelings to last

'coz I think my mind will going to blast

With all the thoughts and baggage's 

That I've been keeping for ages.

LIMERICK - a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming AABBA, popularized by Edward Lear.

Here is an example:

Selina

“There once was a girl Selina,     (A)

  who wants to be a ballerina.        (A)

   She went on her toes,                  (B) 

and she broke her nose.              (B)

 Then she became a gorilla .”        (A)

Here is my own poem:

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Epic Limerick

There was a girl named Ella,

Who married a Gorilla,

Who loves to eat banana

Given by her friend Sheila;

Wife of DJ Padilla.