On his trampoline jumps Max McKnight

but he sails too high!

He’s snapped up by an eagle in flight

passing by.

Thwarted, the eagle can’t swallow the boy 

in one go,

so it opens its beak and drops poor Max like a toy 

into his backyard below.

Teacher’s note: This experimental poem reduces the line-length of a sonnet from the traditional iambic pentameter, while preserving a typical rhyme-scheme.