
Icon by Luis Prado and Joe Harrison (The Noun Project)

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‘Please do not feed the animals…’
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This poem is full of lovely rhymes. Every two lines rhyme. They are called rhyming couplets. Try and write a poem called ‘Do Feed The Animals’ and make up 5 rhyming couplets. For example here are two we have made up:
1. Do feed the kangaroos
Nice cold igloos
2. And give the bears
Big squashed pears
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Please do not feed the ostriches
sandwiches
or the polar bears
éclairs.
Do not offer the wombats
kumquats
or the rattle-snakes
fruit-cakes.
Remember that piranhas
are not allowed bananas
or partridges
sausages.
Never approach a stork
with things on a fork
or the bustard
with a plate of custard.
No leopard
likes anything peppered
and meerkats
dislike Kit Kats.
Remember that grapes
upset apes
and meringues
do the same for orang-utans.
Most importantly–
do not feed the cheetah
your teacher.