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She composed two acrostic poems of advice for her young children. The below poem is the one composed for her son, Wadsworth. [24] [nb 1] No single volume of her work is extant. There is no recorded response to Brewster's Poems documenting the volume's reception, but it appeared in two editions, one printed in New London, Connecticut (1757), and ...
An 1850 acrostic by Nathaniel Dearborn, the first letter of each line spelling the name "JENNY LIND". An acrostic is a poem or other word composition in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each new line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. [1]
Poet and musician Ken Waldman with his fiddle. Ken Waldman is an American writer and musician in Anchorage, Alaska who has published twenty books including 16 volumes of poetry, a book of acrostic poems for kids, a memoir, a creative writing handbook, and a novel.
Best poems for kids Between nursery rhymes, storybooks (especially Dr. Seuss), and singalongs, children are surrounded by poetry every single day without even realizing. Besides just bringing joy ...
Another example is the Old Polish poem Skarga umierającego ("Lament of Dying Man"). [10] Such poems are important historical sources on the development of a language's orthography; Constantine of Preslav's abecedarius from the 9th century, for example, documents the early Slavic alphabet. [citation needed]
A Light in the Attic was praised by critics and audiences for years after its publication. [8] In the fall of 2001, HarperCollins Children’s Books honored the 20th anniversary of the book with a special edition release that featured a separate CD of 11 poems performed by the beloved poet. [8]
Title Page of a 1916 US edition. A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [2]
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...