2N Couplets
A couplet is a two-line poem. The last word of each line rhymes.
1) A baby spider played in the sun.
2) Bouncing on a web is so much fun.
Select three pairs of rhyming words from the box below. Write a couplet for each.
tree, bee red, bed book, look dad, glad ball, small rocket, pocket double, trouble kite, height crown, brown baker, maker jump, thump roar, more pop, stop green, seen carrot, parrot fly, try
carrot /parrot
I like to eat my carrot
So does my pet parrot.
Crown/brown
I like my crown
But it is brown
Crown / brown
I have a crown
and you like the colour brown
The sign that said stop started to pop
Book/look
I want to look.
But I’ve got a book.
try/fly
I will try
to fly
Glad/dad
We were glad
for our dad
Glad/dad
We were glad.
for our dad.
bed/red
I had a bed
and it was red
tree bee.
I can see a bee
but I can’t see a tree
tree / bee.
I can see a bee
but I can’t see a tree.
But I tryd to fly but I couldn’t fly
Rocket/pocket
In our pocket.
There was a rocket.
@Ella please try again.
Rocket/pocket
I soar a rocket
And I have a pocket.
@Rowan – saw/sore
green/seen
I look green.
but nobody has seen.
Kite/heigt
My kite
Went in a heigt
Red/bed
My head is red
So I have to go to bed
@Keeyon, Carter & Pia – try again
the king had a wing
baker/maker
Our baker
Really wanted to be a maker.
Ball/small
I have a big ball
That is very very small
A bee was in tree that sting me.
rocket/pocket
My toy rocket
Fell in my very deep pocket
stop/pop
when all the kids had to stop.
they all looked and they all went pop.
@Abby – good try. Bee and Tree need to be at the end of each line.
I had a buzzy bee
it was in a tall tree.
Fly/try
The king wanted to fly
So he went to try.
@Keeyon, Carter & Pia –
The king wanted to fly
So he had a mighty good try.
Awesome work 2N. Very impressive.
Very nice couplets. It helped me very verrry much . I’m studying in 7th STD. CBSE ST.KABIR SCHOOL . In our book it was asked to do the couplets.
My brother pencil case is red
Just like his bed
My brother pencil case is red
Just like the color of his bed
The grass is so green
From a distance it can be seen
You have a colorful kite
I can see the colors from a height