Reading Level: Grade 3
Topics: Animal Poems, Cautionary Tale, Dinosaur, Imaginary Poems, Tall Tale, Wordplay
Poetic Techniques: Alliteration, Narrative Poems, Tongue Twister, Wordplay
Word Count: 97

About This Poem

Most of my poems rhyme because rhyming makes poems feel more fun, and many of my poems include alliterations too. Alliteration is like the opposite of rhyme. That is, rhyming is when words end with the same sound, but alliteration is when they begin with the same sound.

Every now and then I’ll go a little crazy with alliterations either to write a tongue twister or to create an entire alliteration poem. If you like the sound of alliteration in poems, here are a few more you might like:

• To B or Not to B
• Do You C What I C?
• Shelley Sellers
• Zzzzz

If you would like to learn to write your own alliteration poems, take a look at this lesson plan:

• How to Write an Alliteration Poem

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