Jamaica
warm, dry
charming, appealing, beckoning,
tourist destination, native’s homeland,
alarming, begging, weeping,
poor impoverished
Island.
Author's Notes/Comments:
Diamante
A Diamante is a seven-lined contrast poem set up in a diamond shape. The first line begins with a noun/subject, and second line contains two adjectives that describe the beginning noun. The third line contains three words ending in -ing relating to the noun/subject. The forth line contains two words that describe the noun/subject and two that describe the closing synonym/antonym. If using an antonym for the ending, this is where the shift should occur. In the fifth line are three more -ing words describing the ending antonym/synonym, and the sixth are two more adjectives describing the ending antonym/synonym. The last line ends with the first noun's antonym or synonym.
To make it a bit simpler, here is a diagram.
Line 1: Noun or subject.
Line 2: Two Adjectives describing the first noun/subject.
Line 3: Three -ing words describing the first noun/subject.
Line 4: Four words: two about the first noun/subject, two about the antonym/synonym.
Line 5: Three -ing words about the antonym/synonym.
Line 6: Two adjectives describing the antonym/synonym.
Line 7: Antonym/synonym for the subject.
