1. Types of Poetry

2. 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

3. 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.

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

5. 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

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

7. 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

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

9. 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.

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

11. 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.

12. Shakesperean Sonnet
14 lines
ABAB
CDCD
EFEF GG

13. 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)

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

15. 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.

16. 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

17. 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!

18. Due on Monday, April 28