1. Types of Poems

2. Couplets and Quatrains
Rhyming Couplet: a set of consecutive rhyming lines
Singing he was, or fluting all the day; He was as fresh as is the month of May Chaucer, “Canterbury Tales”
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
Would not take the garbage out!
-Silverstein, “Sarah Cynthia…”
Rhyming Quatrain: a set of four lines that follow a rhyme scheme
Behold the hippopotamus! We laugh at how he looks to us, And yet in moments dank and grim, I wonder how we look to him.
- Nash, “The Hippopotamus”
Look back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!
- Dickinson, “Look Back on Time with Kindly Eyes”

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4. Haiku Form of poetry from Japan Often about nature or animals
Three lines:
1st Line: 5 syllables
2nd Line: 7 syllables
3rd Line: 5 syllables

5. Haiku
Haiku Journey By Kimberly Blaeser i. Spring the tips of each pine the spikes of telephone poles hold gathering crows yesterday’s spring wind ruffling the grey tips of fur rabbit dandelion

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8. Limerick Form of poetry from Ireland Often humorous Five lines
Rhyme scheme: AABBA
Lines 3 and 4 are usually shorter

9. Limerick
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!

10. Limerick
There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!'

11. Limerick
There was an Old Man who supposed, That the street door was partially closed; But some very large rats, Ate his coats and his hats, While that futile old gentleman dozed.

12. Ballad A narrative, lyrical poem
Stanzas usually broken into quatrains (4 lines)
Strong rhyme and rhythm
Rhyme scheme: ABCB or ABAB

13. Ballad
A ballad stanza in a poem has lines as long as these. In measuring the lines we find we get both fours and threes.

14. Ballad
‘The Ballad of Sally in our Alley’ Henry Carey Of all the Girls that are so smart There’s none like pretty SALLY, She is the Darling of my Heart, And she lives in our Alley. There is no Lady in the Land Is half so sweet as SALLY,

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16. Free Verse Free from regular meter (rhythmic pattern)
May or may not rhyme
No fixed line length

17. Free Verse
A Red Palm You're in this dream of cotton plants. You raise a hoe, swing, and the first weeds Fall with a sigh. You take another step, Chop, and the sigh comes again, Until you yourself are breathing that way With each step, a sigh that will follow you into town. That's hours later. The sun is a red blister Coming up in your palm. Your back is strong, Young, not yet the broken chair In an abandoned school of dry spiders. Dust settles on your forehead, dirt Smiles under each fingernail.

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19. Sources http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/limerick.htm
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