How to teach the writing of a comparison poem with a worked example

How to teach the writing of a poem about contrasts.
Firstly ask the students to think of two things which are very unlike each other.
Worked example.
Let’s suppose you decide to use small pebbles on a beach compared to huge mountains.

1. Try to think of ways in which they are different and write this out in note form or prose.
2. For example:
   a) Pebbles are close whereas mountains are far away.
   b) Pebbles can be physically played with by children whereas children may only look at mountains from afar and then walk by.
   c) The colours of pebbles are clear and close up whereas mountains are so far away their colours become faded and dull.
   d) We can hear the sea on the pebbles whereas the mountain is so far distant it appears silent.
   e) The pebbles can only look up whereas the mountain can look down.
   f) We’re so used to seeing pebbles that they become ordinary whereas the mountains seem extraordinary.
   g) The pebbles are scared of us whereas we are scared of the mountains.
   So this suggests 7 stanzas – one for each idea or aspect of comparison.