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== =**Eve Merrian**=

Eve Merriam is a poet that will always live on even though she has left us. During her childhood she was never meant to be a poet, but she had a distinct talent for literature. During her career she was a college professor in many colleges in New York. She is very famous for insisting that poems don’t have to rhyme. She is a very successful poet and has won many awards.
 * Biography:**

Eve Merriam’s poems are mostly written to and about children. Eve Merriam started out not liking poetry, but soon after she found out that poetry impassioned her and she just had to become a poet. Eve loved going to Gilbert and Suliven’s musicals as a child, with her brother. She was inspired by them. Eve likes poetic devices such as, traditional rhyming, inner rhyme, metaphor, and many more. Eve follows the rulesabout poetry because she is mostly writing to kids and has to be appropriate. Poets believed that Eve Merriam’s poetry was excelent and it had given her readers a better look at poetry.
 * Style and influences:**

The Fox and the Rabbit
 * Elizabeth's poem:**

I saw a fox running around out peeped a rabbit but it was home bound

The fox left his home To chase the white tail The rabbit ran off It’s face very pale

The rabbit got shocked He was very scared He made an angry noise His teeth were bared

The fox never scared the rabbit again the rabbit was happy in the end.

Trapped
 * Jason's poem:**

I want to be out there Looking through the window square At the trees; swaying in the breeze I want to be out there. Please?

School is very stressful today Especially because it is a Monday The sun is up; my spirits are down Maybe after school my happiness will be found

The bird flies from tree to tree I wish I could be free

Locked and trapped inside a school Is for sure it is not cool


 * Poems by Eve Merriam:**


 * **Catch a Little Rhyme** ||  ||
 * by [|Eve Merriam] ||

I caught a little rhyme
 * Once upon a time

I set it on the floor but it ran right out the door

I chased it on my bicycle but it melted to an icicle

I scooped it up in my hat but it turned into a cat

I caught it by the tail but it stretched into a whale

I followed it in a boat but it changed into a goat

When I fed it tin and paper it became a tall skyscraper

Then it grew into a kite and flew far out of sight... ||

Dot a dot dot dot a dot dot Spotting the windowpane.
 * Weather**

Spack a spack speck flick a flack fleck Freckling the windowpane.

A spatter a scatter a wet cat a clatter A splatter a rumble outside.

Umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrella Bumbershoot barrel of rain.

Slosh a galosh slosh a galosh Slither and slather a glide

A puddle a jump a puddle a jump A puddle a jump puddle splosh

A juddle a pump a luddle a dump A pudmuddle jump in and slide!

"Eve Merriam." //Poetry Foundation//. Web. . Merriam, Eve. "Catch a Little Rhyme." //Poetry Foundation//. Web. 10 May 2011. <http://www.poetryfoundation.org
 * Works Cited**