Diamante+Poetry

Diamante Poetry

The diamante (dee-ah-mahn-tay) pattern is a seven line contrast poem having a diamond shape. The pattern structure is as follows:

=//**Country Noun**//=

Busy, noisy Adjective, Adjective
=**//City Noun//**=

=**Land**=

**Wavy, Cold**
=**Water**=

1st line: one noun for which you know a contrasting noun

2nd line: two adjectives which describe the subject

3rd line: three participles (-ing or -ed) which describe the subject

4th line: two nouns related to the subject and two nouns related to the opposite of the subject

5th line: three more participles (-ing or -ed words) which describe line four

6th line: two adjectives which describe the contrasting noun (the last word in line seven)

7th line: the final noun that is in contrast to the subject