Response from Benny

Hi every one I just wanted to point out that the stanzas had a pattern of numbers of lines. the pattern went: 6, 9, 8, 9, 6 and then 2 and 1 but i thought that up to the last six was a pattern

Response From Marc L.

I could picture the whole scene of two best friends being torn apart by materal things like bathing suits.

A typical story in todays world.

You don't have this shirt, you are not cool. You do have this shirt, welcome aboard the cool kids boat!

This really came through in this poem, a typical bullying situation. Today was a perfect time for an extra reminder that bullying is not good! Anti- Bullying Day!

Good timing, and a good poem!

Marc L.

Response from Adina

I found this poem extremely powerful. Through out the whole poem I could feel the girl's pain of being left by her closest friend. I had this very strong sense of pain in the second stanza. I can feel the girl's upset when she sees what her friend has turned into and how opposite she is from the girl she remember. The second line in the second stanza says it so strongly that her friend has turned into such a horrible person. It says that she won't even glance her way. She feels so humiliated by her old friend she hinds from her. That is a really horrible feeling and she says it so well that I can feel it deep inside.


Adina

practically triplets

I can real relate to practically triplets because I lost a friend last year. He didn't want to spend time with me. I liked different thing than he did and we parted ways. I will always remember the good times I had with him and I will never lose those memorise of him and me playing, laughing and having fun.

Practically Triplets (by Micah)

I thought that “Practically triplets” was a stirring poem about how when you grow up you sometimes grow apart and how she felt by that. I feel that she felt hurt by her “friends” for abandoning her; she even hides herself under the water so they don’t laugh at her. I can tell that they’ve been separated by body image not a disagreement like (to quote mark) “I like the tomato sandwiches, but you like cheese.”

I can personally connect to this poem because I drifted away from my ‘bestest one and only super duper fwend’ and adopted a few new ones. Luckily for me (and hopefully for Hallie Hertz) I have made lots of new ones and am friends again with the one I drifted away from

Micah B. February 27th 2008

Practically triplets (by micah)

I thought that “Practically triplets” was a stirring poem about how when you grow up you sometimes grow apart and how she felt by that. I feel that she felt hurt by her “friends” for abandoning her; she even hides herself under the water so they don’t laugh at her. I can tell that they’ve been separated by body image not a disagreement like (to quote mark) “I like the tomato sandwiches, but you like cheese.”

I can personally connect to this poem because I drifted away from my ‘bestest one and only super duper fwend’ and adopted a few new ones. Luckily for me (and hopefully for Hallie Hertz) I have made lots of new ones and am friends again with the one I drifted away from

Micah B. February 27th 2008

Practicaly triplets

Sorry Im posting it a bit late and i didnt look at other peoples analyzer but a few things might be repeated...

Metaphors

1. Long and painful surgery

Sensory images

1. Tiny stylish bikinis
2. green flowered suit
3. shoe flinging game
4. passing recess monitor
5. drew portraits
6. starry backgrounds, sunny, rainy
7. mismatched and lopsided
8. I like your shirt

Alliteration

1. we were
2. that the
3. you and your
4. and ashamed
5. make me
6. when we
7. looked nothing like

1. At the very end of stanza 3, for a second I wondered why Hallie Herz put 'I do' on a seperate line because I would've probably put it on the same one. But now I realized that she put it on a line to emphasize that SHE does but maybe the receiver doesnt.
2. I liked how instead of using the negative of what the receiver did to Hallie, she just did all the positive... and then threw in a little thing at the end of stanza 5.
3. I liked how she ended i off kind of like how she started it with 'Don't you remember?'

Hope this helps.

Nini

Poetic Devices and More

When I first read this poem I thought it was about Siamese twins, but then I realized it was about 2 friends breaking apart and going in different directions. It took me 3-4 readings until I fully realized what the poem meant. Some metaphors I found were: -"Practically Triplets," because they were so close, that they were like triplets, however not actually triplets (title and various other places). -"A long and painful surgery," because it's so hard to go different ways than a friend that you know very well, and you probably will not get over it for a very long time (line 6). There was no similes. Some sensory images were: -"Your tiny, stylish bikinis," (lines 9/10) -"Green flowered suit," (lines 12/13) -"Shoe-flinging game on the swings," (lines 17/18) -"Crayon faces, mismatched and lopsided," (lines 30/31). Awesome alliteration was: -"Looked nothing like," (line 32) -"We were," (lines 2 and 39) -"When we," (line 19). The poem was free verse, had 7 stanzas, and 41 lines. Most of the stanzas had 6 lines, however some had 1-2. The lines structure was mid-sized, however did vary.

-Bram S.

oops i meant triplets

oops i meant triplets

Practically Twins

Alliteration

- line 11 "make me"

- line 39 "we were"

- line 19 "when we"

- line 4 "that the"

Sensory Images

stanza 2 line 6 and 7 "ashamed of my green flowered suit"

stanza 4 line 7 and 8 "our crayon faces, mismatched and lopsided"

Who We Are...

Who We Are…

An actor to be,
a baseball fan indeed.
Rocking on my drums,
a rock star here I come.

A dancer that twirls,
that has a lot of curls.
Who thinks dolphins are cute,
And likes to eat fruit.


A cheergirl that's me,
with lots more to be.
I have a passion for art,
because I do it from my heart.


In my blood the arts are
I'm a star with my guitar
A sports player with a lot to say
In the water with a ball I swim away

soccer's my thing,
when im not cheerleading.
With brown straight hair,
I'll take any dare.


Football is mine
touchdown number 99
airplanes rock
especially in a blackhawk



my favourite ice cream is vanilla
my hair looks like a gorilla's
I dance, make cards and joke
but I don't like drinking coke

I have a little sister
who drives around the twister
when she is good she is very very good
but when she is bad she is horrid

painting my toe nails
with lots of details
laughing all day with friends
as the time never ends


Blonde hair
is fair
Blue eyed
much pride

As long as I get a hat trick
I can do a bicycle kick
Hundred meter breaststroke is fun
Getting a touchdown to each one.

My life is sports, movies and fun
Family and friends are number one
Running around there is no time to think
If you looking for me I'm at the rink

The video game screams
as I shoot my beams
at the oger's head
until the game is dead

Music through my ear
What else can I hear
With the bark
Of Linkin Park

I play football on a Sunday morning in September
I practice Star Wars on trombone increasingly louder
I get an A in social studies
I go play a lot with my buddies

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Poem Analyzer

there are 7 stanzas and 41 lines,
some sensory images are "drew portraits of each other" wich allowed me to see pictuers of people. A metaphor is "we were practilly triplets"
some alliteration is "when we" "we were"

Practically Triplets

The poem Practically Triplets reminded me of when I was little with my brother and sister. I remember that I always used to do everything with them and copy whatever they did. If they were doing something crazy I would always do the same. Now I'm not with them as much and if they do something, I don't try and copy it anymore, I go my own separate way. It's like in the poem because now that the friends are older, they went different ways.

Poetic Devices I found:

Metaphors:
- "The only way to separate us would be a long and painful surgery." This means that they were such good friends that they thought that nothing could get in between them.
-"Practically triplets."

Sensory Images:
- "Your tiny, stylish bikinis."
- "Green flowered suit."
- "Starry background."
- "Crayon faces."


Danny G.

Sam's Thoughts on Practically Triplets

Sensory images:

1, “a long and painful surgery” (line 6) - I could feel how painful the separation would be 

2, “Now, when you see me, you won’t even glance my way.” (lines 7-8) - I can see a girl purposely ignoring another girl, and I can imagine the other girl’s sadness.

3, “Tiny, stylish bikinis” (line 10) - I can see a group of fashion obsessed cocky girls.

“The shoe flinging game” (line 17) - I can almost hear the three girls laughing and giggling.

“Our crayon faces, mismatched and lopsided, looked nothing like our real ones.” (lines 30 - 32) - I can almost smell the crayon and see the the lopsided faces.

Line structure:

A lot of short, power lines like: 

“We were practically triplets,

 so close.” (lines 2 - 3 and 39 - 40)

and

“I stay underwater

so you won’t laugh at me.” (lines 14 - 15)

Stanzas:

Every stanza is close in size, expect for the last two.  They seem to be fading off like the girls’ relationship did.

Each stanza deals with a different time.

-Sam

poem analyzer

Metaphores:
-"the only way to seperate us was a long painfull surgery"
-"practicly triplets"

Similes:
-"mismatched and lobbed sided like our real ones"

Sensory images:
-"with a stary backround"
-"my green flowered suit"
-"your tiny stylish bikini"
-"our crayon faces"

Alliteration:
-"make me"
-"when we"
-"we were"
-"look nothing like"
-'that the"

Cadence:
- every stanza asked the othe person if they had rememberd like when she said "remember when we drew portraits of each other"

Rhyme scheme:
-free verse

by mikaela

Poem Analyzer

Hi guys I found a few things for the analyzer.

• A metaphor: that the only way to separate us would be a long painful surgery.
• A sensory image: green flowered suit.
• 7 stanzas 
• 41 lines
• 149 words
• A sensory image: tiny, stylish bikinis
  
• Cadence: every stanza has REMEMBER in beginning sentence.

JaCoB

Practicaly Tripelets

Hey guys,

I found a metaphor in the first stanza. When Hallie Herz says "the only way to separate us would be a long and painful surgery", she explains in such a deep way. She shows that it would be so hard to split up with this friend that it would be almost as painful as a surgery. Another thing I liked about it was it really showed how close there relationship was. All in all this was an amazing metaphor.

Alliteration
-we were (stanza 1 line 2)
-that the (stanza 1 line 4)
-you and your (stanza 2 line 3)
-and ashamed (stanza 2 line 6)

Interesting fact:
When she says "mine with a starry background, yours sunny, and Siobhan's rainy" I thought it symbolized the beginning their separation because every picture was opposite of the other.

-Aviva

Homework

Poetry Analyzer for "Practically Triplets" (Thurs)
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