Lyric Narrative Dramatic Genres of Poetry Lyric Narrative Dramatic Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz Quiz

Types of Poems Acrostic Ballad Biopoem Cinquain Concrete Couplet Diamante Didactic Elegy Epic Free verse Haiku Limerick Lyric Narrative Ode Parody Sonnet Quatrains Tanka I WISH… I USED TO … BUT NOW…

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The theme is spelled out by the first letter in each line Acrostic Poem The theme is spelled out by the first letter in each line Example

Ballad Tells a story Usually written in four line stanzas called quatrains Example

Cinquain Five lines: First line – one noun Second line – two adjectives separated by comma that describe the noun Third line – three verbs separated by comma telling what the noun on the first line does Fourth line – write a thought in a short phrase about the noun Fifth line – repeat a noun used on first line or write a synonym or some related word Example

A poem shaped to look like the subject Concrete Poem A poem shaped to look like the subject Example

Two lines of verse that usually rhyme and state one complete idea Couplet Two lines of verse that usually rhyme and state one complete idea Example

Diamante Seven lines First line – one noun Second line – two adjectives separated by comma that describe the noun Third line – three participles Fourth line – four nouns related to the subject (the third and fourth nouns may have opposite meaning from the first two) Fifth line – three participles indicating change or development of the subject Sixth line – two adjectives carrying on the idea of change or development Seventh line – noun – MUST be the opposite of the noun in the first line Example

Didactic Poem Any verse to teach a specific, academic lesson Example

Epic Poem A long story poem describing the adventures of a hero Example

Free Verse Poetry written in either rhyme or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern. Example

Haiku Originated in Japan Presents a picture of nature (original ones) Has three unrhymed lines First and third line are five syllables Second line is seven syllables Example

Limerick A humorous verse of five lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme and have three stressed syllables Lines 3 and 4 rhyme and have two stressed syllables Example

Lyric Poem A short poem that expresses personal feelings Example

Parody A poem which is based on a well-known poem so that a mimic of its rhythm, rhyme scheme, or verses are immediately recognized Example

Sonnet A fourteen line poem which states the poet’s personal feelings; each line is ten syllables in length Example

Quatrain A four line stanza or poem Common rhyme schemes are aabb, abab, or abcd Example

Example of an Acrostic Poem Christ was born on Christmas Day. Holidays are special. Reindeer tow Santa's sled. Icicles hang off my roof. Snow comes in December. Trees are decorated for Christmas. Mummers go singing Christmas carols. Angels are in the Christmas play. Santa drinks a lot of fanta.

Example of a Ballad Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall "Mother dear, may I go downtown        Instead of out to play, And march the streets of Birmingham In a Freedom March today?" "No, baby, no, you may not go, For the dogs are fierce and wild, And clubs and hoses, guns and jails Aren't good for a little child." "But, mother, I won't be alone. Other children will go with me, And march the streets of Birmingham To make our country free." "No baby, no, you may not go For I fear those guns will fire. But you may go to church instead And sing in the children's choir." She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair, And bathed rose petal sweet, And drawn white gloves on her small brown hands, And white shoes on her feet. The mother smiled to know that her child Was in the sacred place, But that smile was the last smile To come upon her face. For when she heard the explosion, Her eyes grew wet and wild. She raced through the streets of Birmingham Calling for her child. She clawed through bits of glass and brick, Then lifted out a shoe. "O, here's the shoe my baby wore, But, baby, where are you?"

Example of a Cinquain puppy ornery, naughty growling, jumping, chewing a playful bundle of trouble Boxer penguin black, white waddling, swimming, leaping a tuxedo in the cold water emperor

Example of a Concrete Poem Dove

Example of a Couplet by Shel Silverstein "I cannot go to school today." Said little Peggy Ann McKay.

Example of Diamante Seasons http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/diamantes.html Winter Rainy, cold Skiing, skating, sledding Mountains, wind, breeze, ocean Swimming, surfing, scuba diving Sunny, hot Summer

Example of a Didactic Poem Wind: Learn Adjectives (Haiku) by Christopher Rudolph * Bold words are adjectives. Wisping, wistful wind (5 syllables) Warm, rising, ethereal (7 syllables) Evanescent coo (5 syllables)

Example of an Epic Poem Hiawatha's Departure from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited. Full version of the poem

Example of a Free Verse Fog by Carl Sandburg The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

Example of a Haiku The Rose The red blossom bends by Donna Brock   The red blossom bends and drips its dew to the ground. Like a tear it falls.

Example of a Limerick Limerick by Edward Lear There was an Old Man in a boat, Who said, 'I'm afloat, I'm afloat!' When they said, 'No! you ain't!' He was ready to faint, That unhappy Old Man in a boat.

Example of a Lyric Poem Dying by Emily Dickinson I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm. The eyes beside had wrung them dry, And breaths were gathering sure For that last onset, when the king Be witnessed in his power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me; And then the windows failed, and then I could not see to see.

Example of a Parody by Penman   A School Day by Penman Once upon a schoolday rotten Came some bullies and they were plot'n To mop my head across the bathroom floor A mop mop mopping across the bathroom floor Only this and nothing more When all of a sudden there came a rapping A tap tap tapping on the bathroom door Only my head and nothing more I started to scream to show my displeasure but they wanted to open my head like some kind of treasure and spill the contents across the bathroom floor. Only this and nothing more Oh won't these bullies please let me be I promise I'll give them all of my money and after they wiped me across the bathroom floor they took this and nothing more. So they just quit the beating right out of the blue I guess it was because school's out it's five after two but they dismissed it as if they were now bored only this and nothing more

Example of a Sonnet SONNET 116 by Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Explanation of the Sonnet

Paraphrase of the Sonnet 116 Let me not declare any reasons why two True-minded people should not be married. Love is not love Which changes when it finds a change in circumstances, Or bends from its firm stand even when a lover is unfaithful: Oh no! it is a lighthouse That sees storms but is never shaken; Love is the guiding north star to every lost ship, Whose value cannot be calculated, although its altitude can be measured. Love is not at the mercy of Time, though physical beauty Comes within the compass of his sickle. Love does not alter with hours and weeks, But, rather, it endures until the last day of life. If I am proved wrong about these thoughts on love Then I recant all that I have written, and no man has ever [truly] loved.

Example of a Quatrain The Mountain by Donna Brock 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)

Question # 1: What common feature do couplet, limerick, haiku, sonnet, and quatrain poems have?

Question #2: Which types of poems could be classified as narrative poetry?

Question #3: What type of poem would you write to make your friends laugh?

Question #4 What poem would be most appropriate for your Valentine?

Question #5? What is the difference between free verse poetry and writing non-poetry?