Sharon Cooper

1
Poetry

• Sharon Cooper

2
Different Forms of Poetry

• Poetry comes in all shapes and sizes
• Poetry expresses many moods and feelings
• Poetry is a way of playing with words and language

3
Forms of Poetry

• Poems may or may not rhyme
• Sometimes poetry follows specific patterns or
  shapes, but not always
• Most people feel they arent good at writing
  poetry

4
Name or Acrostic Poem

• List the letters of a name in a column going up
  and down the left hand side of the paper
• Put one letter on each line
• Each letter starts that line of the poem
• Each line tells something about that person
• Does not have to rhyme

5
Mother

• Makes me feel loved
• Offers advice
• Thinks I am wonderful
• Has unlimited patience
• Enjoys my friends
• Respects my privacy

M O M
6
Haiku

• An unrhymed Japanese poem
• Three lines
• Lines are 5, 7, and 5 syllables
• A total of 17 syllables
• Light and delicate in feeling
• Often concerns nature

7
The Slithering Snake

• A snake slithered by
• Skinny, green, and cool looking
• Living in the woods.
• Emily
  Powell
• Woodlands 5th grade

8
Tanka

• Contains 5 lines
• Also an unrhymed Japanese poem
• Has 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 syllables respectively
• A total of 31 syllables
• Does not rhyme

9
A Winters Tree
Born full and now bare Cold, stiff, and deadly
gray, stopped By harsh, blinding winds Never
giving up on life, Clinging only to the soil.
Stephen Viljoen - Woodlands 5th grade
10
Cinquains

• Simple, five line verse form
• Line 1 one word of 2 syllables (subject)
• Line 2 4 syllables describing the subject

11
Cinquains

• Line 3 - 6 syllables showing action
• Line 4 - 8 syllables expressing a feeling or
  observation about the subject
• Line 5 - 2 syllables describing or renaming the
  subject

12
Puppies

• Puppies
• Playful, hungry
• Barking, biting, licking
• Sleep silently all night long
• Ornery
• Jessica McCullough Woodlands 5th grade

13
Part of Speech Poem

• Fun to write
• Uses parts of speech
• Has five lines

14

• Line 1 one article one noun
• Line 2 one adj. one conjunction
• (joining word) one adj.
• Line 3 one verb one conjunction
• one verb
• Line 4 one adverb
• Line 5 one noun that relates to
• noun in line one

15
The Bird

• The bird
• swooping and floating
• flying and soaring
• gracefully
• Eagle
• Wesley Light
• Woodlands 5th grade

16
Couplets

• Simplest rhymed pattern
• Have 2 rhyming lines
• Often have a humorous twist
• Lines can be any length
• Rhythm and rhyme should match the thought or mood
  of the poem

17
The Friendly Dark

• The friendly dark just fills my room
• When Im in bed at night
• It creeps on tiptoe all around
• To take the place of light.
• Barbara Hanna

18
Quatrain

• Four line poem
• Made up of 4 line stanzas
• Stanzas are the paragraphs of poetry

19
Quatrain

• Uses one of four rhyming patterns
• Lines 1 and 2 rhyme, and lines 3 and 4 rhyme
  AABB
• Lines 1 and 3 rhyme, and lines 2 and 4 rhyme
  ABAB
• Lines 1 and 4 rhyme, and lines 2 and 3 rhyme --
  ABBA
• Lines 2 and 4 rhyme, but lines 1 and 3 dont
  ABCB

20
A Kite

• I often sit and wish that I
• Could be a kite up in the sky,
• And ride upon the breeze and go
• Whichever way I chanced to blow.
• Anonymous

21
Limerick

• A humorous five line poem
• Lines 1, 2, and 5 have three stressed beats and
  rhyme with each other
• Lines 3 and 4 have two stressed beats and rhyme
  with each other
• Lines 3 and 4 are indented

22
Rain

• There once was a small girl from Maine
• Who liked to dance in the rain.
• The thunder went boom,
• She ran to her room,
• And said, I am leaving for Spain!
• Kasey Parker
• Woodlands 5th grade

23

• Poetry Links for Classroom Use
• Giggle Poetry
• The Poetry Zone
• Poems for Free
• Poems by children

24