Poems with figurative language

Three poems to use in shared or guided reading or as modelled texts to teach poetry writing.

NIGHT:
Subject: trapped inside during a heavy snow storm
Language: similes; (extended) metaphors; personification; alliteration
Organisation: 4 x 4 line verses; repetition of openings; a variety of patterns and contrasts
Theme: mood; mystery; feelings of being trapped; contrast with inside and outside, light and dark

ROLLERCOASTER
Subject: the excitement of being on a rollercoaster
Language: short lines to imitate movement of ride; similes; metaphors; repetition of sounds
Organisation: chronological: walking to ride, waiting in queue, getting on, riding, getting off; 6 verses
Theme: the thrill of a ride; on to the next thing

ROMAN SOLDIER
Subject: a Roman soldier marches to a British fort
Language: historically related vocab. (cohort, century); metaphor; alliteration
Organisation: 6 verses
Theme: homesickness; historical fiction; being a foreigner in a new place