Crime Acrostic Poems

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• mindful_skill | Arnhem Wharf Primary School
  21 Feb 2019

  Well done. You could’ve extended the verses. It was a bit too short.

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• 1. content_lemon | Boutcher C of E Primary School
     mindful_skill's comment 21 Feb 2019

     Acrostic poems are meant to be short! I didn’t want it to sound lengthy.

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  2. 1. Tiff @ the BNC
        content_lemon's comment 21 Feb 2019

        Acrostic poems are often short and snappy. How did you decide what content to include in a shorter poem?

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     2. 1. content_lemon | Boutcher C of E Primary School
           Tiff @ the BNC's comment 21 Feb 2019

           First of all, I guess I had to think about what I actually wanted to say. I knew that acrostic poems don’t have to (if ever) rhyme, having written one published in a book before, and I tried to think about the different perspectives: e.g. the family, the actual victim and the person committing the crime - explaining why I did the last one as though I’m the burglar. I found this quite interesting, because normally, we only think “Oh, poor them” or “Gosh! Why would they do that?” Not really answering the question. Although I didn’t actually include this in the poem, (except how they are “eager to see death and hurt”) I think I definitely thought about it - one way or another! Making the poster beforehand also helped because it gave me the chance to look back so that I actually know what I’m doing. As you say, Acrostic Poems are meant to be short, so I did have to bear that in mind. (Though, I had to go over it again and edit once or twice; it was simply repeating the same thing - but not a good example of repetition)

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