1. F ORMS OF P OETRY

2. F ORMS Lyric - Expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse.

3. Homework by Jack Prelutsky Homework! Oh, homework! I hate you! You stink! I wish I could wash you away in the sink. If only a bomb would explode you to bits. Homework! Oh, homework! You're giving me fits. I'd rather take baths with a man-eating shark, or wrestle a lion alone in the dark, eat spinach and liver, pet ten porcupines, than tackle the homework my teacher assigns. Homework! Oh, homework! You're last on my list. I simply can't see why you even exist. If you just disappeared it would tickle me pink. Homework! Oh, homework! I hate you! You stink!

4. F ORMS Haiku -A three-line Japanese verse form. -The first and third lines each have five syllables and the second line has seven. -Traditionally about NATURE “I walk across sand And find myself blistering In the hot, hot heat” “It was magical When the princess kissed the frog Until she threw up” “In warming sunlight A cat sleeps beneath roses Dreaming of times past”

5. Concrete - A poem that is shaped to look like its subject. The poet arranges the lines to look create a picture on a page.

6. F ORMS …( CONCRETE CONT.)

7. Free Verse Poetry that is defined by its lack of structure. It has no REGULAR METER RHYME FIXED LINE LENGTH SPECIFIC STANZA PATTERN Song of Myself by Walt Whitman I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

8. Narrative Poetry Narrative poetry tells a STORY. It has elements similar to a short story. Characters and Plot

9. Ballads Ballads are songlike poems that tell a story often dealing with ADVENTURE ROMANCE

10. LIMERICK Humorous, rhyming poems. Have 5 lines and follow a specific rhythm and RHYME scheme (AABBA). Imagine a skunk who proposes, To his true love, surrounded by roses. It may turn out just fine, When she falls for his line, But I wonder if roses have noses? There once a man from Nantucket. He kept all his cash in a bucket. His daughter named Nan Ran away with a man And as for the bucket, Nan tucket.

11. Rhyming Couplets Pairs of rhyming lines Usually same meter and length William Shakespeare wrote his sonnets in this style.

12. Rhyming Couplets School Lunch Burgers, prunes, and warm spaghetti To eat this stuff I'm not ready Thin Scrawny, slender, skinny, slight Your plump friends tell you you're too light Weird Bizarre, strange, and spooky things Books and stories by Stephen King Outlaw Pirate, bandit, thief or crook At them the judge should throw the book Math Boring, dull, uninteresting, tiresome These are some reasons why I am so dumb