Today was the first day of school,

and now I'm tired.

But the new teacher they've hired


is nobody's fool.

She's assigned us homework

for this very first night--

that hardly seems right--

as my fried brain goes berserk.



Goodness!I must be too tired to think straight.This poem really needs lots of help with the meter.Hey, I thought I was doing OK just to get the rhyming pattern I wanted.I bet your ear didn't hear the rhymes.Look carefully and you'll see the weaving pattern of oblique rhymes that I used.Can you write your own poem aobut the first day of school?
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