Childhood

Exercise 1: Iambic Pentameters

1. Anaesthetised by adulthood at last
2. The calm before the adolescent storm.
3. If adults could remember they would cry.
   

Exercise 2: Trochaic Tetrameters

1. Childhood is a stormy ocean.
2. Turning twelve was really tricky.
   
3. I remember sipping snowflakes.
   

Exercise 3: Dactylic Trimeters

1. Adults they simply don't understand.
2. Rose-tinted glasses don't help at all.
3. Adulthood seemed such a mystery.
   

Exercise 4: Anapestic Dimeters

1. What a long time ago.
2. They just don't understand.
3. Back when winter meant snow.
   

Exercise 5: Quatrain; abab; iambic pentameters

1. If I could travel time and surf my youth,
I think I'd give my teenage years a miss;
Cos sometimes fiction's better than the truth,
And ignorance can certainly mean bliss.

2. In adolescence all of us acquire
The injuries we nurse throughout our life.
Exhausted as we tread the teenage mire,
We never quite recover from the strife.

3. I cannot contemplate a simpler world
Than back before your adam's apple drops,
Before the leaf of life becomes unfurled -
When you can tell the robbers from the cops.

Exercise 6: Quatrain; abab; anapestic tetrameter/anapestic trimeter/anapestic tetrameter/anapestic trimeter.

1. To be young is a blessing but also a curse
And I'm not sure I'd go there again,
But it took a disheartening turn for the worse
On the day that I stopped being ten.

2. Though the winters were cold and the snow was routine
And the summers invariably mild
Nothing else can be said of my time as a teen
Which would recommend life as a child.