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have made-up words to add to the nonsense meaning of the poem. Here are two examples
of nonsense poems.

i. There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, ‘It is just as I feared!’ –
Two Owls and a Hen,

Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!

Edward Lear

ii. Hey diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle.

The cow jumped over the moon.
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The little dog laughed to see such sport ,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

A Mother Goose rhyme

Read some more nonsense poems at the library or on the Internet. Write four or

fi ve lines of nonsense poetry. You are allowed to make anything happen in your
nonsense poem.

Activity

The old woman in the poem goes as high as the moon to clean the cobwebs.

There are many interes ng expressions using the word moon. Find the meanings
of these expressions:

a. once in a blue moon b. be over the moon

c. many moons ago d. cry for the moon
e. bark at the moon f. shoot for the moon

* sport: (here) playful activity
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