Haiku Haiku are poems The pattern is this: With a specific pattern Five syllables, then seven Using syllables Then five once again They can be written Many times they have About nearly anything Some sort of shift near the end Often on nature Remember the shift? It is a marked change Need help with writing? In tone, speaker, attitude. Check out the instructions here, They don’t have to rhyme They are all haiku ghosts have it easy impervious to earthquakes dead but no freedom

Limerick Lines: 5 Rhyme pattern: AABBA Rhythm Pattern: iamb anapest anapest da DUM da da DUM da da DUM                         da DUM da da DUM da da DUM                          da DUM da da DUM                          da DUM da da DUM                          da DUM da da DUM da da DUM

Things to remember: Think of the name of a city, town, country or person Think of words that rhyme with that place or person’s name Come up with a short story about that person or place

Examples: There once was a fellow named Tim Examples: There once was a fellow named Tim (A) whose dad never taught him to swim. (A) He fell off a dock (B) and sunk like a rock. (B) And that was the end of him. (A) There was an old person of Fratton           A Who would go to church with his hat on.   A 'If I wake up,' he said,                                    B 'With a hat on my head,                               B I will know that it hasn't been sat on.‘ A

Sonnets 14 line poems with specific rhyme scheme Point - counterpoint format Two major types - Italian and English Italian - an octave followed by a sestet (8 lines followed by 6) English - three quatrains followed by a couplet (three 4-line parts followed by a two-line)

Italian Rhyme Scheme. English Rhyme Scheme A. A B. B B. A A. B A. C B Italian Rhyme Scheme English Rhyme Scheme A A B B B A A B A C B D B C A D turn C E D F E E F C         turn D G E G

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right; I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Sonnet 130 William Shakespeare My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.   And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare   As any she belied with false compare.

Haiku nature, 5-7-5 Limerick rhyming humorous poem Sonnet Point-counterpoint