Students read their personal novels, before sharing their sonnets (many did not write with the correct rhyme scheme - they need to ensure they can label rhyme scheme before Wednesday's quizzzzz).
Today's poem:
Picture a rusty spigot (google it) and water struggling to flow out of it, as there is water in the line. Read Eve Merriam's Poem, "The Rusty Spigot," aloud, and see how the choice of onomatopoeia/text actually causes the reader's voice to mimic the sound of water and air fighting to get out of the tap first...and hear how, in the end, the water wins. She forces us to both see and hear what the words are describing...
Write your own sound poem, 10+ lines, using onomatopoeia. Don't get caught up in Merriam's artistry - just do your best!
Alternatively, you may consider the euphony in Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening," and seek to create a unified poem, which gives a sensory impression, using euphony...10+ lines.
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