How Do You Write A Diamonte Poem?
A diamonte poem gets its form and name from the diamond shape it takes on when written. It is composed of seven lines, each with a distinct format. This style of poetry does not involve rhyme, rhythm, or syllable count, which makes it a fairly simple format for beginning poets. Diamonte poems are an effective and creative writing exercise for practicing synonyms and antonyms, nouns, verbs, adjectives and using descriptive language. Start the poem with a subject. Write this noun, which is one word, as the first line. Center the subject on the page as you will for all the remaining lines of the diamonte. Write two adjectives to describe the chosen starting subject. This makes up line two. Write three action words which end in “ing” and tell more about the top subject. This forms line three. For line four, write four nouns total. The first two nouns should tell about the subject from line one. The second two nouns should tell about the antonym or opposite of the subject. An alternate vers
