Ashley & Mallorree P RIDE B Y :D AHLIA R AVIKOVITCH

P RIDE I tell you, even rocks crack, and not because of age. For years they lie on their backs in the heat and the cold, so many years, it seems peaceful. They don’t move, so the cracks stay hidden. A kind of pride. Years pass over them, waiting there. Whoever is going to shatter them hasn't come yet. And so the moss flourishes, the seaweed whips around, the sea pushes through and rolls back--- the rocks seem motionless. And suddenly the rock has an open wound. I told you, when rocks break, it happens by surprise. And people, too

S PEAKER

F ORM  Form:  the way a poem looks  Free Verse  A type of poetic style in which lines are organized in a loose conversational way  Why?  It’s not put into groups of lines

R HYME S CHEME  Rhyme Scheme:  The pattern of rhyme in a poem

T YPES OF RHYME  Internal  Rhyme within a line  They don’t move, so the cracks stay hidden (line 7)  End  Rhyme at the end of a line  I tell you, even rocks crack, and not because of age. For years they lie on their backs (line 1-3)