Write a poem with set meter and a rhyme scheme Write a poem of at least eight lines using a set meter and rhyme scheme. You may, if you wish, attempt a sonnet, a villanelle, or a ballade; but you will probably find easier designing your own form. Quatrains of abab, cdcd or abcb, bcdb are one suggestion. Use at least one figure of speech (i. e., simile, metaphor) and one sound effect (i. e., internal rhyme, alliteration, consonance).

Fall's leaves have been spent, and comes winter at last

All greens now heaven-sent, summer's long gone and past

Bears ready their coats, glossed by a fine sheen

Ensnared now by their moats, mossed-over, not to be seen

'Til springtime again, and like Christ from his tomb

They rise from their graves, by the light of new moons

A season of sleep, unbothered, alone

No reason to weep: they offer atonement

For the crimes of their summer, the evils of youth

Times of rainbow runner, fresh kills held in tooth

All hail the bear, nature's mightiest beast

Let it prevail, I declare, from south to northeast.

Explanation:

I wrote a silly little poem about bears. It's twelve lines long and its meter is more or less set; it has an AABB rhyme scheme. The figure of speech I used was a simile in line four ("like Christ from his tomb") and the sound effect is internal rhymes throughout. Feel free to use it (although this does constitute as plagiarism, just as a forewarning).

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