Poetry

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0:00:09 > 0:00:10Today, we talk about poetry.

0:00:10 > 0:00:12Ooh, I love poetry!

0:00:12 > 0:00:14I'm going to get myself a wheel, slap on some clay

0:00:14 > 0:00:15and make myself a jug.

0:00:15 > 0:00:17Poetry, not pottery.

0:00:17 > 0:00:18So, how do you become a poet?

0:00:18 > 0:00:21All you've got to do is write words down. They don't even have to rhyme.

0:00:21 > 0:00:23Ooh, I've got something I'd like to write a poem about.

0:00:23 > 0:00:25- My favourite fruit.- Go for it, bro.

0:00:25 > 0:00:27The Orange, by Zig.

0:00:27 > 0:00:29My favourite fruit is the orange

0:00:29 > 0:00:30It really is rather borange

0:00:30 > 0:00:31Once I eat its norange

0:00:31 > 0:00:33I eat its fruity slorange.

0:00:33 > 0:00:37Er, Zig, really great job, except they probably should be real words.

0:00:37 > 0:00:38Oh, sorrange!

0:00:38 > 0:00:39ZIG BEATBOXES

0:00:39 > 0:00:41A poem, you see, is like painting with words

0:00:41 > 0:00:43'Bout anything at all, whatever occurs

0:00:43 > 0:00:45Some have rhythm, others rhyme

0:00:45 > 0:00:47But here's what true every time

0:00:47 > 0:00:49Just read a poem, give it a go

0:00:49 > 0:00:52Or write one yourself, you just never know

0:00:52 > 0:00:54Wordsworth, Bronte, Muhammad Ali

0:00:54 > 0:00:56Michelle, Eldon, James and Riley.

0:00:56 > 0:00:59Zig, Zig, Zig, Zig, they're not poets.

0:00:59 > 0:01:00They're the cast of The Next Step.

0:01:00 > 0:01:02Ah, but they make poetry with their feet.

0:01:02 > 0:01:04Hmm, true dat.

0:01:04 > 0:01:08Orange, you're so...orangey...

0:01:08 > 0:01:09Zig, don't you have another favourite fruit

0:01:09 > 0:01:11you could read a poem about?

0:01:11 > 0:01:13I'd like to say yes, but no.

0:01:13 > 0:01:14So, who's this Shakespeare guy?

0:01:14 > 0:01:16Ah, yes, Shakespeare!

0:01:16 > 0:01:18Of course, that's not his real name.

0:01:18 > 0:01:21They called him that because his first job was to shake spears.

0:01:21 > 0:01:22What kind of job is shaking spears?

0:01:22 > 0:01:24It was before lollipop ladies were invented.

0:01:24 > 0:01:28He used to stand outside ye olde school and wave his spear

0:01:28 > 0:01:29at the horse and cart.

0:01:29 > 0:01:33"Oi, you! Stop! Let these children cross ye road safely."

0:01:33 > 0:01:34And then, one day, he was so bored he said,

0:01:34 > 0:01:37"I'm tired of shaking spears. I've been doing this job for years."

0:01:37 > 0:01:38"Ooh," he thought to himself,

0:01:38 > 0:01:41"I like the way those words sounded together.

0:01:41 > 0:01:43"Now I'd like to spend my time writing words that rhyme."

0:01:43 > 0:01:45And THAT'S how poems were invented.

0:01:45 > 0:01:46Wow! Really?

0:01:46 > 0:01:49Yeah! Probably. I mean, sort of, I guess...

0:01:49 > 0:01:50- I wandered lonely...- Yes?

0:01:50 > 0:01:52- I wandered lonely...- Yes?

0:01:52 > 0:01:54I wandered lonely as an orange.

0:01:54 > 0:01:55Argh!

0:01:55 > 0:01:58So, there you have it, all you need to know about poetry!

0:01:58 > 0:02:00Zig and Zag signing off - but, remember, zoglings,

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