It woke us up one summer's eve.
Could not believe -
a car alarm
could cause such harm.
The blaring car we had to find -
I'll lose my mind!
We searched the block
and were in shock.
''Twas just a mimic we had heard -
a mockingbird,
who'd changed his tune
to laughing loon.
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Write a Minute Poem. The Minute Poem is rhyming verse form consisting of 12 lines of 60 syllables written in strict iambic meter. The poem is formatted into 3 stanzas of 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables. The rhyme scheme is as follows: aabb, ccdd, eeff. See an example and more details in the announcement. |
Author Notes
A mockingbird can actually sound like a car alarm, a barking dog, crickets, and a variety of birds. They can be amusing- and annoying at times! By the way, this was a true story...it happened to our son and his family.
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