Metaphor: Skeleton of a Poem (cont.)

Second, I make a list of categories: Looks like, Sounds like, Feels like, Moves like, Tastes like, Smellls like, Reminds me of, and Animals. These are the categories I start with, though not everything always fits into one of them.

Then I go down my list of categories and try to come up with several items under each category that resemble my birch tree in some way.

Here are my quick results:

BIRCH TREES

Looks like: bones, cigarettes, grave markers (a whole birch forest), popsicle sticks, ribbons (the curling bark), toothpicks

Sounds like: crackling of a campfire

Feels like: paper, stone, fabric, silk

Moves like: people at a concert, swaying slightly

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