Consider the children introduced in Act I. Choose one of those characters and design a poem from that character’s point of view that illustrates how they are feeling thus far in the play.

- Use at least three figurative language techniques from this lesson.
- Your poem must be at least three stanzas, with four lines per stanza (twelve lines total).
- Your poem can be free verse or have a rhyme scheme.

Of all the forms professional writers can take, it is the professional poet who most often finds themself struggling to make ends meet financially. Poetry can be difficult to understand and require a lot of effort on the part of the reader.

Students can be forgiven for wondering what exactly is the point of this difficult-to-write and difficult-to-read genre that is apparently used to torture the less literary-minded during their school years.

What is a Rhyme Scheme?

This refers to the sequence of rhyming which is used in a given text which shows how rhymes are used.

For Example;

With this in mind, we can see that the basic difference between the rhyme schemes in A Psalm of Life" and "Auspex" is that the first one makes use of an ABAB rhyme scheme while the second one does not have a rhyme scheme.