<table class="s_table"> <tbody> <tr> <td><br /> <p><img src="http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/51/13/35/5113354b8f0ab9e4202275de64f192e3.jpg" alt="" title="" /></p> </td> <td style="padding-left: 30px;"> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">We created a word bank of words that rhymed with "you" like: do, true, shoe, glue, stew, two, Cthulhu...</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Then we thought of a theme, like Halloween.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">And created 4 line poems, that had 4 syllables in each line with a rhyme at the end of lines 2 and 4.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">If you have to "cheat"- meaning you have 5 or 6 syllables in a line, that's OK, just don't do it too often or you will lose the mimicking structure that I assigned.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">There are two examples below to give you ideas.</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Â </p> <table class="s_table"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #008000;">Here's one where I used the "oo" rhyme:</span></p> <p>Â </p> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Zombies are <span style="color: #808000;">green</span>,</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">They're looking for you.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Don't close your eyes,</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">They'll get you too.</span></p> </td> <td style="padding-left: 30px;"> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #008000;">Here's one where I changed the rhyming word (and cheated on the syllable rule in one line):</span></p> <p>Â </p> <p style="padding-left: 150px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Zombies want brains,</span></p> <p style="padding-left: 150px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Shiny and <span style="color: #ff00ff;">pink</span>.</span></p> <p style="padding-left: 150px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">But your head is empty,</span></p> <p style="padding-left: 150px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">you're safe, I think.</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>