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I enjoyed the poem "Seaside Serenade" by Ogden Nash. The poem is about how the writer doesn't like the seaside. The poem is written in rhyming couplets. The writer starts talking about the smell, like whenever you are on the way to the seaside you will always tend to smell it before you actually see, it because it has that distinctive odd fishy smell. Throughout the poem the writer concentrates on some of the senses. …

…go down to the beach my lass, And step on a piece of broken glass." I think the writer has written the last two lines to emphasise danger because he has maybe been at the beach when he has stood bare footed on a piece of broken glass. I liked the poem by Ogden Nash, because the poet made a successful use of the techniques to make the poem funny and very easy to imagine