The two-word per line poem have been found suitable for language learning at foundational stage of learning. I often call such poems 'pedagogical poem' since they build related vocabulary about the a thing without much cognitive load or irrelevant word load which is not appropriate to the age-grade level as often found in conventional rhymes.
Research has also shown the conventional rhymes are written in a literary way as a demonstration of language art of adults and work as incomprehension load through they are able to recite them mechanically and sheer imitative learning forced on them.
Poem characteristics
The attributes of a two-word per line poem are as follows.
The title situates on a specific thing or a concept
The first line gives us an action or a close-up or part
The second line provides a quality, an attribute or a metaphorical transformation
An example
The following picture gives an example such a poem on cat or billi.
Linkage to visual symbolization
The following example of successive drawing of the face of the cat brain-fully or mindfully related the abstract symbol with the visual symbol.
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