In the last few weeks year 6 have been learning about the rainforest as well as other biomes.

We have been using poetry to describe the rainforest  environment. In our first pieces we were focusing using our senses to transport the reader to the rainforest. We also considered how, in free verse poetry, poets can choose to make breaks in the line to add emphasis or create tension. This is called enjambment – a new words for us all!

Change in the rainforest

The birds chirping in an orchestra of sounds,

The trees swaying to the tune.

The emerald metropolis of the world crammed,

Wildlife.

Stillness of the tranquil rivers glisten in the cloudless,

Sun lit sky.

Last week we also considered more structured poems by looking at a rhythm in poetry called iambic pentameter. In this structure,  each line of the poem consists of 10 syllables. Each meter has two syllables that follow the pattern of unstressed then stressed syllables.

Mr Shakespeare used this structure a lot in his sonnets :

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

We had a go at writing our own poems in Iambic pentameter: