Poem

For me, paradise is False River,

Where I go to escape.

I can escape stress.

I can escape schoolwork.

I can escape drama.

The water can be as calm as a sleeping baby,

But sometimes it is as wild as a lion in the jungle.

Soaking up the sunshine in the summer,

I spend hours outside under the sun.

“Zoom” I hear as boats quickly fly by while I lay

On the dock working on my tan.

Tubing behind the boat,

I enjoy the nice breeze.

Splish splash can be heard loudly

As my body slides off the tube into the water.

Riding jet-skis I enjoy,

Because I can go fast and feel free.

For me, paradise is False River,

Where I go to escape.

In lines 3-5, I used the technique anaphora repeating the phrase “I can escape” at the beginning of successive lines.

I used two similes in lines 6 and 7 to describe the water at its two extremes, first “as calm as a sleeping baby” and second “as wild as a lion in the jungle.”

In line 8, I used alliteration with the repeating of the “s” sound using “soaking,” “sunshine,” and “summer” all in the same line.  This is also sibilance since it is the repeating of the ‘s’ sound specifically.

Line 10 is an example of the technique onomatopoeia using the word “zoom” to imitate the sound of boats going past.

Lines 10-11 show an example of enjambment, which is a run-on line with on line running into the next.

Line 14 contains consonance with the words “splish splash.”

Line 16 uses the technique syntax switching up the order of the sentence from the traditional subject-verb-object order.

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