Class v

English

Poem

My mother saw a dancing bear

Author- Charles Causley

 Objectives of the lesson
Read poem with correct pronunciation and
intonation
Define four basic elements of the poem
Identify four basic elements in the poem
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My mother saw a dancing bear
By the schoolyard, a day in June.
The keeper stood with chain and bar
And whistle-pipe, and played a tune.
And bruin lifted up its head
And lifted up its dusty feet,
And all the children laughed to see
It caper in the summer heat.
They watched as for the Queen it died.
They watched it march. They watched it halt.
They heard the keeper as he cried,
‘Now, roly-poly!’ ‘Somersault!’
And then, my mother said, there came
The keeper with a begging-cup,
The bear with burning coat of fur,
Shaming the laughter to a stop.
They paid a penny for the dance,
But what they saw was not the show;
Only, in bruin’s aching eyes,
Far-distant forests, and the snow.
Four basic Elements of poem

Rhyme
Stanza

Rhythm

Imagery
1) Stanza
 A group of lines forming the basic
unit in a poem; a verse.
It’s equivalent to a paragraph of an
essay.
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 Types of stanzas

Couplet Tercet Quatrain

2 lines stanza 3 lines stanza
4 lines stanza

Cinquain Sestet

5 lines stanza 6 lines stanza

Septet Octave
8 lines stanza
7 lines stanza
Let’s identify the number of stanzas and type of stanza
My mother saw a dancing bear
By the schoolyard, a day in June.
The keeper stood with chain and bar 1
And whistle-pipe, and played a tune.
Quatrain
And bruin lifted up its head
2 -Four lines
And lifted up its dusty feet,
stanza
And all the children laughed to see
It caper in the summer heat.
They watched as for the Queen it died. 3
They watched it march. They watched it halt.
They heard the keeper as he cried,
‘Now, roly-poly!’ ‘Somersault!’
And then, my mother said, there came 4
The keeper with a begging-cup,
The bear with burning coat of fur,
Shaming the laughter to a stop.
They paid a penny for the dance, 5
But what they saw was not the show;
Only, in bruin’s aching eyes,
Far-distant forests, and the snow.
 2) Rhyme
 Two or more words having the same sound when
spoken.
 Usually at the end of lines
 Example; 1. Sent and went
2. Star and far
 Rhyming words don’t have to be spelled the same.
 Example; 1. Fly and eye
2. Would and hood
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Let’s identify some rhyming words from the poem
My mother saw a dancing bear
By the schoolyard, a day in June.
The keeper stood with chain and bar
And whistle-pipe, and played a tune.
◦ And bruin lifted up its head
And lifted up its dusty feet,
And all the children laughed to see
It caper in the summer heat.
They watched as for the Queen it died.
They watched it march. They watched it halt.
They heard the keeper as he cried,
‘Now, roly-poly!’ ‘Somersault!’
◦ And then, my mother said, there came
The keeper with a begging-cup,
The bear with burning coat of fur,
Shaming the laughter to a stop.
They paid a penny for the dance,
But what they saw was not the show;
Only, in bruin’s aching eyes,
Far-distant forests, and the snow.
 3) Rhythm
Described as the beat and pace of a poem.
 Created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed
syllables.
 Example; 1. Summer

SUM mer
stressed unstressed
2. Mother
MO ther
stressed unstressed
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 4) Imagery

Words used by the author that arouses the five

senses of the readers.
Example; 1. burning coat of fur.

- we can feel the heat.

2. dusty feet
- we can see (imagine) the bear’s feet
with dust.
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 Summary
Read poem (My mother
saw a dancing bear)with Four basic elements
correct pronunciation of poem
and intonation

Stanza

Identify elements
Rhyth in the poem (My Rhyme
m mother saw a
dancing bear)

Imagery