Types of Poetry

Cinquain 5 lines total Syllables for the lines are 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 Example: Ice cream Cold and yummy I love its sweet richness As it finds its way into my tummy

Wormhole-it brings old friends close. Haiku 3 lines Syllables 5, 7, 5 EXAMPLE: Facebook is like a Wormhole-it brings old friends close. And it sucks up time.

Nonet 9 lines Syllables 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

Nonet Example When I see beauty all around me When everyone’s sweet and gentle When my heart is full of joy When love’s blooming inside I know she is there The child in me Genuine Simple Pure

Clerihew Usually about a person Start with the person’s name 4 lines Rhyme Scheme AABB

Clerihew example Taylor Swift can write a good tune And make the boys swoon But she can’t sing so well I wish she’d get help from Adele

Limerick 5 lines Funny AABBA Usually introduces a person and a place

Limerick Example There was a young lady from Niger, Who smiled as she rode on a tiger They returned from the ride With the lady inside And a smile on the face of the tiger.

Monorhyme A lot of lines All lines end with the same rhyme scheme

Monorhyme example: Late for Class I realized it was half past four (Man, my brain was really sore.) When I, quite late, ran out the door. Up the marble stairs I tore, My history class I so abhor, And slid across a just-mopped floor: But I missed two sessions the week before. I banged my knee and loudly swore, To wake -again- at half past four! I failed a test on ancient lore These nightmares I can stand no more... And forgot the date of the Second World War.

Shakesperean Sonnet 14 lines ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Shakesperean Example But thy eternal Summer shall not fade (e) Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? (a) But thy eternal Summer shall not fade (e) Thou art more lovely and more temperate: (b) Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; (f) Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, (a) Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, (e) And summer's lease hath all too short a date: (b) Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, (c) When in eternal lines to time thou growest: (f) And often is his gold complexion dimm'd: (d) So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, (g) And every fair from fair sometime declines, (c) So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. (g) By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd: (d)

FREE VERSE Do whatever you want! No rhyme scheme No syllable pattern

Free Verse Example: Footfall this house, its bones creak like mine with each step, from here to there, and back again. no matter the hour, it, me, our bones become one with life, as we both age the same.

ASsignment Write 4 poems total 1 must have a syllable pattern 1 must have a rhyme scheme You must use 7 out of ten figurative language in one of the poems (alliteration, hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification, paradox, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, oxymoron) Extra credit will be given if you write a Shakesperean Sonnet

Assignment Part 2 Use the song lyrics from your favorite song Analyze the song to find elements of poetry Come back with four examples of figurative language within the song If you can’t find it in your song, try another one. You can use more than one if you want!

Due on Monday, April 28