1. Diamante Acrostic Couplets Clerihew Concrete Nursery Rhymes Cinquain
Poetry
Haiku
Clerihew
Concrete
Nursery Rhymes
Limericks
Cinquain
Free Verse

2. Poetry is multi-dimensional
It is
Intellectual
Sensual [appeals to the senses]
Emotional
Imaginative

3. Poetry’s distinctive elements
Rhythm – flows like a melody and has movement
Melody – sweet or agreeable succession or arrangement of sounds
Imagery – mental picture of something not actually present
Form – shape; a poem of a tree written in the shape of a tree

4. Poetry in the Classroom…
Nursery Rhymes – stories, riddles, lullabies
Folksongs – poems set to music
Ballads – stories set to music
Couplet – a pair of rhyming lines
Haiku – Japanese form of writing poetry
Free Verse – lacks rhyme and pattern
Cinquains – gradually increasing syllables in each line. Last line has two syllables
Limericks – Lines 1, 2 and 4 rhyme. 3 and 5 rhyme

5. More types of poetry happy
Poems set to music – folk songs, such as Skip to My Lou
Free verse – lacks rhyme and has less predictable rhythm
List poems – a list of your favorite excuses/complaints, animals, etc.
Concrete poetry – words and phrases arranged on paper to capture and extend the meaning; written in the shape of the subject
Diamante – poem in the shape of a diamond; seven lines
Clerihew – funny poems about specific people [teachers, parents]; four lines long
Acrostic – a word written vertically; write a descriptive phrase using the first letter of each line.

6. Folk songs and ballads Narrative poetry [tells a story] set to music
Tom Dooley
Hang down your head Tom Dooley,
Hang down your head and cry
Poor boy you're bound to die.

7. hope then still clings.“
Couplets
A pair of lines that are usually rhymed
"If the phone rings,
hope then still clings.“
A child drifted off to sleep
After she counted sheep.

8. Meeting blue sky and green earth
Haiku
A poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture.
Many themes include nature, feelings, or experiences.
The most common form for Haiku is three short lines.
A Haiku must "paint" a mental image in the reader's mind.  
A Rainbow
Donna Brock
Curving up, then down.
Meeting blue sky and green earth
Melding sun and rain.

9. Free verse Lacks rhyme and has less predictable rhythm
FIRST HORSEBACK RIDE
I never rode a horse
before, until that
sweltering
August day
riding through the New England
woods
the horse was swatting
flies
with her tail
and I was helping
trying hard to swat flies with my hand.
That was when I discovered how
reins
are not like steering wheels,
for no matter which way I turned
or pulled
she would only go to the
barn Nesbitt

10. Cinquain
Five lines gradually increasing number of syllables in each line until the last line returns to two syllables.
triangles pointy edges revolving, rotating, angling Triangles are all different. 180°

11. Limerick
Some people say that the limerick was invented by soldiers returning from France to the Irish town of Limerick in the 1700's.
A limerick must be funny!
A limerick must tell a story.
A limerick must have 5 lines.
A limerick must have a rhyme scheme of aa bb a. 
A limerick has a specific rhythm.
Limericks are meant to be funny. They often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns, and other figurative devices.
The last line of a good limerick contains the PUNCH LINE or "heart of the joke."

12. Limerick 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 flowers have noses?

13. List poems
A good list poem creates a rhythm in both structure and content and then breaks that rhythmic pattern with an item that is surprising.
MY CAR
My car is my office, with laptop and printer and files and cell phone and paper clips scattered on the floor.
My car is my home, with a sleeping bag and pillow in the trunk, a few changes of clothes, dirty socks and two pairs of shoes stuffed behind the seat, a toothbrush, toothpaste, and an extra razor in the glove box. And there is a little fox puppet in the back window in case I get lonely.

14. Concrete poetry
A concrete poem is one that takes the shape of the object it describes.

15. Diamante
A diamante is arranged in a diamond pattern with 7 lines that describes a specific subject, and then the opposite of that same subject.
Dreams wonderful, happy enjoying, amazing, fascinating rainbows, flowers, dragons, monsters terrifying, horrifying, shocking scary, horrible nightmares

16. Clerihew
Clerihews are funny poems you write about specific people. They are four lines long.
The first and second lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other.
Our art teacher, Mr. Shaw, Really knows how to draw. But his awful paintings Have caused many faintings.

17. back-end hello-- wagging.
Acrostics
A poem in which special letters spell another word.
Panthers growl, Orioles sing, Eagles soar, Monkeys swing. See? 
Devoted, 
On  Guard. 
back-end hello--  wagging.

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