Download or read book Patterns in Poetry written by Jo Hinchliffe and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mixture of mainly nonsense verses, funny and crude rhymes, and lines of imagery, with some haunting poetry, selected to teach the varieties of verse forms to Lower and Upper Primary. Topics include creepy-crawlies, dinosaurs, witches, gismos, food, farting, life experiences, aborigines and the environment. Activities stress discussion of verse and rhyme structures and writing pastiche, and can range far - eg. after 'I eat my peas with honey' - 'Discuss slow and fast-growing vegetables'. With further reading, index of poets and index classifying verses according to poetry form.