This bingo card has 25 words: Divide the poem into couplets., Change the tense of your poem (past/ present/ future)., Change the POV of your poem., Underline your favorite 2-3 lines in the poem. Use those to start something new., Make a blackout/erasure of your own poem., Look up the vocab of a topic unrelated to your poem (beekeeping,etc.) Use three of those words in your poem., Count the number of lines in your poem.Cut 1/3 of them., Read your poem out loud 3x. Change any areas that sound "weird.", Cut the clutter (filler words)., Pick 3 images to make more specific and concrete., Double-check all the punctuation for consistency, for rhythm - does every comma have a purpose?, Write 3 new titles for your poem., Check word frequency: If we use a word in a poem more than once, it's a pattern. Is this a generative pattern, or an accident?, Cut the last stanza (or 4-6 lines). Replace it with something new., Cut all the adjectives. What happens?, Write 3 new opening lines for your poem. Do you like any of them more?, Double-check capitalization. Is it consistent and with purpose?, Re-write your poem with the exact same words but totally different line breaks and stanzas., Add 3 negative phrases to your poem (Do not / Never / etc.), Find a line you dislike. Rewrite it 5 different ways., Highlight all the sensory images in your poem. Rewrite anything you didn't highlight., Enjamb the entire poem., Add 3 commands to the poem (the imperative mode)., Add a stanza (or 4-6 lines, if prose) to the middle of the poem. and Use the words: "treasure," "moon," and "fall" somewhere in the poem..
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