Diamante Poem Template printable pdf download

Diamante Poem Template

Write a diamante poem about these beetles

Bark and wood-boring beetles usually lay their eggs in stressed, diseased and dying trees.

Adult beetles enter the trees through cracks in bark or behind loose bark. Eggs are laid in

shallow tunnels made by the adults. Eggs progress from larvae to pupa eventually becom-

ing adults. They feed on phloem and sometimes the fungi growing within the tunnels. This

can take from one to three or more years depending on the species of beetle, climate and

other factors. When ready to fly, mature beetles make exit holes in the tree. They seek

other trees in which to repeat their life cycle. Beetles renew forests by killing older or

stressed trees and by decomposing wood. Some become notorious pests.

Diamante is a poem in the shape of a diamond.

EXAMPLE

Diamante poems are seven lines long. The line pattern

Woodpecker

goes like this:

jerky, noisy

Line 1. Noun

climbing, pecking, excavating

Line 2. Two adjectives

eggs, hatchlings, nestlings, fledglings

Line 3. Three participles

flying, foraging, surviving

Line 4. Four nouns.

big, dead

Line 5. Three participles

tree

Line 6. Two adjectives

Line 7. Noun

Your poem

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Diamante Poem Template