Diamante poems (or diamond poem) are poems that are made up of seven lines and form a diamond shape. The poem often starts and ends with an opposite (like day and night) or a synonym as the first line and antonym as the last line.
In diamante poems, the topic of the poem is a one-word noun in the first line. The second line is made up of two adjectives that describe the topic from the first line. The third line has three verbs that end in -ing and are related to the first line. In the fourth line there are four nouns. The first two are related to the first line while the other two are about the subject in the last line. The fifth line contains three verbs ending in -ing related to the word in the last line. The sixth line has two adjectives that describe the word in the last line. The seventh line is a one-word noun that is the opposite or an antonym of the first line.
Using this information you should be able to choose from your idea pairs which is the best for the beginning and end of a diamante poem.
