Types of Poetry

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Types of Poetry

• 7th 8th Grade
• Communication Arts

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Haiku(HI-coo)

• Type of poetry from the Japanese culture
• Combines form, content, and language
• Themes nature, feelings, and experiences
• Simple words and grammar

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Haiku, cont.

• First line usually contains five(5) syllables
• Second line seven(7) syllables
• Third line contains five(5) syllables

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Haiku, cont.

• Doesnt rhyme
• Must paint a mental image in the readers mind

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Haiku Example

• The Rose
• By Donna Brock
• The red blossom bends
• And drips its dew to the ground
• Like a tear it falls

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The Rose, cont.

• Warm red apples hang
• In heavy loaded or chards
• Apple cider soon.
• Little blue bird there
• Chirping gladly on her nest
• Two eggs hidden well.

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Tanka

• Japanese poem
• Haiku form but it adds 2 lines with 7 syllables
  each.

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Tanka Example

• The bright sun smiles down ( 5 syllables)
• October skies crisp and blue (7 syllables)
• Pumpkins dot the fields (5 syllables)
• Blushing trees do whisper now (7 syllables)
• Lady Autumns passing through.(7 syllables)

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Cinquain

• A simple poem of five lines
• Lines do not rhyme
• Lines follow a pattern

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Cinquain

• Line 1 - 1 word topic, a noun
• Line 2 2 words describing topic, adjectives
• Line 3 3 words of action, verbs
• Line 4 4 words expressing feeling about topic
• Line 5 1 word synonym for topic

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Cinquain Example

• Cowboys
• Rough, ready,
• Riding, roping, branding
• Yipee! Free and happy
• Range-riders

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Syllable Cinquain

• Line 1 title (2 syllables)
• Line 2 description of the title ( four
  syllables)
• Line 3 action of the title (six syllables
• Line four feeling about the title (two syllables

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Acrostic

• First letter of each line forms a word when you
  read them looking downward.
• From the Latin
• Acros (coutermost)
• Stichos(line of poetry)

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Acrostic, cont.

• Choose one topic word or name of a person or pet
• Write the letters of the word down the page in
  big print
• Make up lines that begin with the letter.
• Hint it helps to have a dictionary handy for
  choosing words to get your lines started.

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Acrostic, cont.

• F lirting with the seaweed
• I n and out you glide,
• S wimming over long-lost ships
• H unting for your lunch.

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Couplet

• A pair of lines of poetry that are usually
  rhymed.
• Can be used to build other poems
• This poem should express a metaphor.

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Couplet Examples

• If turkeys gobble,
• Do Pilgrims squabble?
• If cars go Zoom,
• Exhaust smoke will plume!
• My mother thinks I am her star
• Except when I raid her cookie jar!

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Diamonte I

• Structured poems in which the meaning is conveyed
  without connectives.
• Uses different parts of speech

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Diamonte I

• A noun
• Two adjectives that describe
• Three verbs that tell what the noun does
• Short phrase about the noun
• Noun - repeat the first or give a synonym

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Diamonte I Example

• School
• Busy, scheduled
• Studying, working, learning
• Lessons, homework, recess, freedom
• Relaxing, playing, resting,
• Short, delightful
• Vacation

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Diamonte II

• A noun
• Two adjectives modifying the noun
• Three participles of nouns action (ing)
• Two synonyms two antonyms (three participles of
  changed action (ing)
• Two adjectives modifying noun of change
• Noun opposite of the original

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Diamonte II Template

• ______________
• _______________,______________
• _______ing, _________ing, _________
• ______, _________ - _______ing, _____ing
• ___________, ____________
• ________________
• (- the thought becomes the opposite)

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Quatrain

• Comes from the Latin and French words meaning
  four
• A poem or stanza of four lines.
• Patterns aabb or abab, abcb

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The Mountain

• The mountain frames the sky (a)
• As a shadow of an eagle flies by. (a)
• With clouds hanging at its edge (b)
• A climber proves his courage on its rocky
  ledge.(b)

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Missy

• Missy is my best friends cat, (a)
• Stripes of orange and white. (b)
• She loves to play in paper bags (c)
• And prowls the house by night. (b)

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Limericks

• A five line poem written with one couplet and one
  triplet.
• The rhyme pattern is a a b b a
• Lines 1, 2, and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming
• Lines 3 and 4 haing two beats and rhyming.

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Limericks, cont.

• Often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms
  puns, and other figurative devices
• Last line of a good limerick contains a PUNCH
  LINE or heart of the joke.

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Limerick Example

• A flea and a fly in a flue
• Were caught, so what could they do?
• Said the fly, Let us flee.
• Let us fly, said the flea.
• So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

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Free Verse

• Poetry that is written without proper rules about
  form, rhyme, rhythm, meter, etc.
• Writer makes his/her own rules
• Writer decides how the poem should look, feel,
  and sound

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Winter Poem

• Once a snowflake fell
• On my brow and I loved
• It so much and I kissed
• It and it was happy and called its cousins
• And brothers and a web
• Of snow engulfed me then
• I reached to love them all
• And I squeezed them and they became
• A spring rain and I stood perfectly
• Still and was a flower

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Ballad

• A poem that tells a story
• Usually written in four line stanzas
• First and third lines have four accented
  syllables
• Second and fourth have three accented syllables

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The Great Selkie of Skule Skerry

• The selkie be a creature strange.
• He rises from the sea to change
• To human form, a weird one he,
• When home it is in Skule Skerry.
• When he be man, he wants to wed.
• But still, the sea remains his bed.
• Ladies, beware of him who be
• A selkie come from Skule Skerry.
• His love he wants them to accept,
• But neer has he a promise kept.
• Who is this strange one that they see?
• Tis Selkie come from Skule Skerry.
• A maiden from the Orkney Isles,
• A target for his charm, his smiles,
• Eager for love, no fool was she,
• She knew the secret of Skule Skerry.

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Sonnet

• A fourteen line poem that states the poets
  personal feelings
• Shakespearian or English
• Three quatrains and one couplet with a set of
  rhyme and meter
• Abab-cdcde-efef-gg
• Petrarician or Italian
• two quatrains and one sestet
• abba-abba pattern

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Villanelle

• French verse form
• End rhymes and repeated key lines which are
  arranged intricately
• a/c/b ab/c/a ab/c/b ab/c/a ab/c/b ab/c/a/b
• A and b stand for complete lines which rhyme with
  each other
• C stands for different lines sharing the same end
  rhyme
• Ab is one line and stand for different lines
  sharing the same end rhyme as a and b

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Epitaph

• A short verse on the life and death of a
  particular person or persons, real or imaginary,
  for placement on a tombstone
• I Robert Frosts epitaph simply reads
• I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

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Dream Poetry

• Describes a personal dream
• Can take the from of Free Verse

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Witches

• I wait
• To feel happiness
• Familiar or brand new
• But I dream of witches
• Evil curls like smoke
• From the corners of their eyes
• And out between lips
• Parted in false smiles
• Spiny fingers reach for me.
• My mind races,
• But my feet are still.
• I wake,
• But still their cruel laughter
• Echoes in my head.
• Theyll return,
• These wicked ladies,
• To dance upon my bed.

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Bio Poem All About You

• Line 1 Your first name
• Line 2 Four descriptive traits
• Line 3 Sibling of
• Line 4 Lover of (people, ideas)
• Line 5 Who feels
• Line 6 Who needs
• Line 7 Who gives
• Line 8 Who fears
• Line 9 Who would like to see
• Line 10 Resident of (your city)
• Line 11 Your last name

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• Lisa
• Outgoing, Opinionated, Direct, Go-getter
• Sibling of no one
• Lover of David, Kelsey, Kaitlyn
• Who feels the need to take care of people
• Who needs more sleep and more time
• Who gives all she can to others
• Who fears losing someone she loves
• Who would like to se a better place
• Resident of Illinois
• Mom

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Poetry Using the 5Ws

• Who or what is the poem about?
• What action is happening?
• When does the action take place? (a time)
• Where does the action take place? ( a place)
• Why does this action happen? (a reason)

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5-W Poetry Example

• Lisa
• Went on a road trip
• To Minnesota
• Over the Fourth of July
• To watch her friend get married