Poetry types and styles

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Edgar Allan Poe You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. Carol Ann Duffy https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/poetry Poets on poetry

Haiku Profusion of pink - 5 Purple, yellow, vivid blue - 7 Riot of color - 5   Falling flying leaves Cling fleetingly to bare limbs Drop silently down Icicle diamonds Glistening, iridescent In the frigid air Kim Carlton Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry. It is about nature or the natural world. Pattern: A three line poem whose lines follow the pattern of 5 – 7 – 5 syllables Haiku

A concrete poem is a poem that is written about the shape of the object that the poem is about. It is visual poetry that combines pictures and words. Some concrete poems are written around the shape instead of inside the shape. Concrete Poem

Diamante

Acrostic Selfless and sweet Always glad to see me Waits patiently An acrostic poem uses a name or names. The name is written in a vertical line and words starting with the letters in the name are used to describe the person or object. Selfless and sweet Always glad to see me Waits patiently Young at heart Eternal best friend Reliable Acrostic

Couplet In the middle of the night I received quite a fright A couplet is a two line rhyming poem – the ending words rhyme In the middle of the night I received quite a fright A movement on the bed Something walking on my head In a moment of panic My brain was in havoc Then I saw my cat Darn cat, what a silly brat! Couplet

cinquain

Works Cited Wiki How – How to Write a Concrete Poem https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/poetry Mrs. Williams – Dr. Williams’ mom created the charts for the diamond and cinquain poems and for many of the others that you will explore in this project