Defining Nouns
Defining Nouns
By Chris Commodore©2001
I am a noun; I stand to name
Distinguishing things not the same
I set the pace on every page
I reign throughout the language
I indicate each entity
That readers feel and see
Like kindness, Peter, Maine and ring
Abstraction, person, place, or thing
Add to a verb an “ing”.
And I become a gerund
Like itching, ringing, drinking
And still, I am a noun
If I name things specific
Like Melville’s Moby Dick
Or ancient England’s London Town
Then I’m a Proper Noun
When I name basic entities
Like boys and dogs and trees
Or man or woman pet and ground
Then I’m a Common Noun
But there are words like flock of sheep
With or without their wool
A lot of fish attending school
Then I’m Collective Noun
At other times I name a lot
That you can’t feel and touch
Like kindness, love, hate, fear, and frown
Then I’m an Abstract Noun
Two or more sections in a word
All joined to make a name
With such a word, it’s still the same
I’m just a Compound Noun
And there’s one final type of name
Of solid things with mass
Such words are nouns, like stone and glass
These are the Concrete Nouns
About this poem
This poems resulted from the teaching of a Language Arts class. This was an attempt to simplify the hard-to-remember the text book definitions and classification of nouns. The focus is on the content of the poem rather than on the rhyme scheme/
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Submitted by ti.min on October 29, 2023
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Scheme | AX BBXX CCDD DCDE FFEE GGXE XXXE XXEE XBBE BHHA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,143 |
Words | 222 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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