Identifying Different Types of Poetry

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Youre a Poet and You Know It!

• Identifying Different Types of Poetry

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Objective

• Identify types of poetry

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Terms to Know

• Rhyme words that sound the same (e.g., bees and
  knees)
• Rhyme scheme pattern of rhyme at the ends of
  lines
• Couplet pair of rhyming lines
• Syllable small unit of sound a beat
• Rhythm pattern of sound

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Limerick

• Limerick funny, nonsense poem
• five lines
• lines 1, 2, 5 rhyme
• ( 8 syllables)
• lines 3 4 are a couplet
• ( 5 syllables)

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Limerick Example

• I once saw a horse at the zoo.
• I did not know quite what to do.
• It looked like a horse
• With a tail, of course.
• But instead of neigh, it said moo!

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Haiku

• Haiku 3-line, 17 syllable poem about
  nature and life
• lines 1 3 have 5 syllables
• line 2 has 7 syllables

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Haiku Example

• Flying in the sky
• Were birds who drifted apart
• Like hearts without love

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Cinquain

• Cinquain 5-line poem with a formula
• line 1 2 syllables (title)
• line 2 4 syllables (description)
• line 3 6 syllables (action)
• line 4 8 syllables (emotion) line 5 2
  syllables (synonym for title)

http//falcon.jmu.edu/ramseyil/poeform.htm
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Cinquain Example

• Monsters
• Furry, Toothy
• Sneaking, Creeping, Watching
• Hungry, Angry, Greedy, Fearless
• Beasties

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Free Verse

• Free verse lacks a predictable rhythm
  and rhyme

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Free Verse Example

• The rain falls down
• from above
• like wax dripping from a candle.
• Slowly, slowly, slowly down,
• draining the clouds until
• they are just wispy white threads
• in a blue-black sky.