Personally, I thought the raindrop wasn't bad -- Sir Philip Sidney used the same image when he said of two lovers "Wept they had, alas, thewhile/But now tears themselves did smile" -- the idea is that a tear or a raindrop is like a convex mirror, if you look closely enough.
Poems that tell a story are great -- and kids love them. Lord Macaulay's "Lays of Ancient Rome"; "John Gilpin", Browning's dramatic monologues; and, of course, the Iliad.......
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Same here, especially long ones where the character learns somthing in the end, almost like a short story.
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Poems that tell a story are great -- and kids love them. Lord Macaulay's "Lays of Ancient Rome"; "John Gilpin", Browning's dramatic monologues; and, of course, the Iliad.......
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