24-07-2004, 14:48
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Miss. Little Long Black Hair
AKA: Nadia Zamora
#1369 (Minotaurs)
Team Role: Leadership
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Rookie Year: 2004
Location: Tampa, Fl
Posts: 179
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Re: FIRST inspired poetry... that I wrote for my English Literature class in college
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Originally Posted by Elgin Clock
6 Weeks of Hell
FIRST, you need to learn how to play the game
How to win it and what to design.
Now we have an idea, let’s make the frame.
Make some parts from CAD drawings like mine.
Build a chassis and make it roll.
Add the gearboxes, and add the chain
Wire it up and drill a speed hole.
Is it complete? When can we train?
It’s almost done let’s build the field
Look at that, the bot’s not gonna flip.
Go driver go, don’t go and yield.
Hurry up and practice, WE GOTTA SHIP!!
Pack the crate early and we’ll finish by noon.
Hope that it’s done, we’ll compete with it soon.
A villenelle style poem follows a pattern assigned with the last rhyming words of each line. If you were to list the rhyming sound by line, by assigning letters to them it would look like:
A,B,A,B,
C,D,C,D,
E,F,E,F,
GG
Where as the 1st line's last word rhymes with the 3rd, the 2nd with the 4th. and so on.. until the end where the last two words in the last two lines rhyme with each other.
OK, now that I am done giving you a study of poetry, what do you all think??
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OOOh Great!! ... poetry (something I'm good at)! Although I'm much more of a free form poetist ...I've written several villenelle style poems in my time! Now this may sound a little weird but when I write this type of poem I start with my first intial rhyming lines for example:
FIRST, you need to learn how to play the game
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Now we have an idea, let’s make the frame.
and then I fill the lines in between ... of course to do that you must have the general idea of what your poem is about and well .. maybe its just me!!!
Overall, the poem is good ... definetly covers the whole 6 weeks of the building system. What I am worried about is how you'll get graded on it ... but that depends on the teacher! 
Good luck with that ... and I give you a full ten *snap* count for it ... very well done!!!
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