Question

Compose a poetic stanza of your own in four lines using the words below given as the

theme of your stanza.

Ringing

Shivering

Sinking

Dying​

Answer 1

Answer:

The Bells are ringing

The snow is Shivering

My boots are sinking

And the on fire place is dying

Here comes Christmas

Answer 2

Just as folks inside were ringing in the new year,  

An old woman was shivering outside, her eyes full of frozen fear.

The heartbeats slowed, she knew she was gradually sinking,

When a child pulled her indoors, and saved humanity from dying.

 

It is not necessary to write in rhyming lines, but we are used to reading poems in rhyme. In these lines, the contrast between the rich and the poor, indoors and outdoors, and the old woman and child are clear. Yet another idea is how a child responds and saves the old lady. The child is innocent and shows compassion and saves the old lady from dying and also saves the kindness of humanity from dying out altogether.