Friendship is a theme best represented within this passage.
An emerald a green as the sea, A ruby as beautiful as fire; A sapphire calm as the ocean; the flint as dark as my tire. A diamond broken and shining, staying strong through the night; an opal like the sun, shining with a glinting fright; But low and behold the flint shines even more than the suns light.
Answer:
In short, what makes a poem a poem is the ability to make the reader feel something. ... If it's a serious or depressing poem, the language should reflect that. If it's a poem about how long something should take, the words should not be short and move wuickly over the tongue.
