Diamante Poem! It's time to try writing your own wonderful poetry. In the space below, create your own diamante poem. Just follow the guide provided and don't hesitate to go back to the lesson to refresh your memory on the details of a diamante poem.

• lines one and seven are one-word antonyms

• lines two and six are made up of two adjectives each that describe the nouns in lines one and seven

• lines three and five are made up of three words each ending in -ing that tell an action that describes the nouns in lines one and seven

• line 4, the middle of the poem, is the link between the two words. It contains two words that describe line one and two words that describe line seven. This line can also be a phrase that shows the comparison between lines one and seven.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.