Learning about Poetry

1. Learning about Poetry The Sweet Tooth Candy Shop Taffy, suckers, and lollipops, Lemon, lime, and orange gumdrops, At the Sweet Tooth Candy Shop, It’s the sweetest place to stop! Peppermint sticks and chocolate bars, Drive right up here in your car To the Sweet Tooth Candy Shop, It’s the sweetest place to stop! Is candy what you like to eat? Then you will find all sorts of sweets At the Sweet Tooth Candy Shop, It’s the sweetest place to stop! Verse Line A jingle is a simple, catchy poem about a light or humorous subject. Jingles use rhythm, rhyme, and repeating words or lines to make the poem easy to remember. Because the sound of the words makes the poem likely to attract attention, jingles are often put to music and used in television and radio commercials. The use of repetition, rhyme, and rhythm gets the jingle “stuck in your mind,” which is what advertisers want. There are three major parts of a jingle written for a commercial. The verse tells the details, facts, or gives a story. Thetag is the name of the company or product. It is repeated several times throughout the jingle. The hook tells why you want or need the product. Read the jingle. Can you identify the verse, the tag, and the hook? Will this jingle pop into your mind and make you want to go to their shop to spend your money? Rhyme Stanza Tag Line Break Hook Adapted from R is for Rhyme, by Judy Young