Diamantes

Dots make up lines. Lines make up a surface. Surfaces make up the 3rd dimension.

Letters make up words. Words make up a sentence. Sentences make up the poetry dimension.

Welcome back to the blog of poets! As you can see upon, I wrote that words make up sentences which make up the poetry dimension. Well, in this case, we go from words straight to the poetry dimension. We are going to learn about diamantes!

Diamante poems are poems where we use words to make up a poem. It is called diamante because of it's diamond shape. Here's an example.




Diamante poems


Diamante
Dull, gloomy
Boring, agonizing, terrifying
Painful, terrible, awesome, painless
Amazing, stunning, enjoying
Fun, amused
Recess


If you actually think this, you will not be a good poet.
Look at the poem again. It starts with a subject. At the next line, there are two adjectives. Then, there are three -ing words. Then, there are two words about the subject followed by two words that are not about the subject. That is followed by three -ing words that are not about the subject. Then there are two adjectives which are not about the subject, and finally, the opposite of the subject. Diamantes are centered out so that is what makes up the diamond shape.

I guess that's its, so bye!


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