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APA Citation: Coombs, K. (2012). Water sings blue (M. So, Illus.). Chronicle Books LLC. 

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Lee Bennet Hopkins Criteria -
CHCL - "Evaluating Poetry for Children" (p. 185)
Poem - "What the Waves Say"

Does the poem use alliteration? Onomatopoeia? Repetition?
The poem contains alliteration in the second stanza. It says "Shift and splash", and again in stanza 4, it says, "Swirl and swish". Onomatopoeias are also found in the poem. In stanza 3, it says the waves "murmur" and  "shush". There is no repetition found in this poem.

Does the poem create sensory images of sight, touch, smell, or taste?
The poem gives a sensory image of what waves sound like. The entire poem is meant to capture the sounds of waves, but within that, the image of them can also be easily imagined. The last time talks about how the waves "strike the shore", which gives an easy visual.

Are these images related to children’s delight in their particular senses?
Yes. Most children have been to the beach at one point or another. If not, it is something that most children have at least heard about. There are different types of waves depending on the day. This poem captures each sound waves are capable of making and relating them to familiar sounds using words like "whisper: and "lullaby".

What is the quality of imagination in the poem? Does the poem invite the child to see something in a fresh, new way, or does it rely on tired clichés?
Many stories/poems about the beach are about what one sees. This poem provides a new outlook by focusing in on the less thought about sense when it comes to the beach, which is hearing. Rather than talking about the beautiful blue sky or what the waves look like, it is highlighting the words of the waves.

Is the figurative language appropriate to children’s lives? Are the similes and metaphors ones that a child would appreciate and understand?
The entire poem is made up of metaphors. Waves cannot actually "catch the sun" or the "wind", but the comparison that is made makes sense. There are no similes found in this poem because "like" or "as" is not used for any comparison.

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APA Citation: Nye N. S., (2015). A maze me: Poems for girls (T. Maher, Illus.). HarperCollins. 

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Lee Bennet Hopkins Criteria -
CHCL - "Evaluating Poetry for Children" (p. 185)
Poem - "Rose"

Does the poem use alliteration? Onomatopoeia?
Repetition?
There is repetition in the poem, but it is only slightly. In lines 35 and 36, it repeats, "so long". There is a lot of rhyming, but little use of alliteration and no use of onomatopoeia.

Does the poem create sensory images of sight, touch, smell, or taste?
The poem contains an image of a spider and a beautiful day. Throughout the poem is a description of where the narrator is, then it loops back around to the spider and her elegant web.

Are these images related to children’s delight in their particular senses?
Yes. Even though many people are not so fond of spiders, the poem appeals to the sense of being outside, watching the spider spin her web, and the sounds that one may hear outside (in this poem, it is the trolley bell).

What is the quality of imagination in the poem? Does the poem invite the child to see something in a fresh, new way, or does it rely on tired clichés?
This poem allows children to see the beauty in such a simple thing, a spider and her web. The spider is such an unusual thing to find elegant, but the poem makes it so easy to see the web spinning in a new way.

Is the figurative language appropriate to children’s lives? Are the similes and metaphors ones that a child would appreciate and understand?
The figurative language displayed in the poem provides a sense of imagery. In lines 14, 15, and 16, the narrator writes of "breathing jasmine, watering honeysuckle, plucking mint". Though these may be actual actions, it provides the readers with a sense of setting. I think this is one of the most important parts of a poem because it really takes ahold of one's imagination.