Introduction to Poetry

Line Endings

Poem Version 1 - The Basic Words

This unit of work will take you through different version of the poem each one adding a different layer to the basic building blocks of the words themselves. But let's start just with the words and with nothing else. There are only 26 of them in this very short poem and in the first slide they are presented sequentially in the form that they appear in the final poem. The line endings have been taken out, as has all the punctuation. We'll look at them later. Your first task is to try to decide where you think the line endings should appear. Now click below to see the basic words of the poem.