1. Poetry
Learning ballads, free verse, sonnets, haiku, odes, lyric poem epic and limericks.

2. Styles of Poetry
Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response.

3. Subcategories Ballads Free Verse Sonnets Haiku Odes Limericks Epic
Lyric Poem
Could play with music
Doesn’t need rhythm
Certain number of lines
Certain number of syllables
Extensive

4. Getting Familiar with the terms: Ballads
A narrative song with a recurrent refrain
A ballad is a poem usually set to music
A narrative poem composed of short verses, intended to be sung or recited
Example: Untitled
Characteristics: stanza form, imagery

5. Free Verse
Verse depending for its poetic effect upon irregular rhythmical pattern, either absence or irregularity of rhyme, and the use of cadenced speech rhythms rather than conventional verse forms
Characteristics: informal
Example: Wishing Well p 452 lit. bk

6. Can you write in free verse?
Good Tips
rhythm or no rhythm
long or short
simple or complex

7. Sonnets A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Rhyme scheme usually follows:
ababcdcdefefgg (Elizabethan, Shakespeare) or abbaabba (Italian)
Characteristics: 14 lines, rhyme scheme
Example: How do I love thee?

8. Odes A lyric poem with complex stanza forms
A long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form
Example: Alexander’s Feast
Characteristics: lengthy, complex, no conventional rhyme scheme

9. Limericks
A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict form; rhyme scheme usually aabba
Limericks are frequently witty or humorous, and sometimes obscene with humorous intent
Example: Tim, Old Man in a Boat
Name your limerick!!

10. Haiku Can you haiku? Haiku is a kind of Japanese poetry
Poetry that is three lines long. The first line is five syllables, the second line is seven syllables, and the third line is five syllables long.
Examples: Baked Goodies, Falling on the Ground, and Haiku Space.
Can you haiku?

11. Write your haiku poem! Good Tips first line has five syllables
second line has seven syllables
third line has five syllables

12. Epic Poem Long narrative poem
Celebrating the adventures and achievements of a hero
Deals with traditions, mythical or historical, of a nation
See sample Tiddalick

13. Lyric Poem
that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now commonly referred to as the words to a song. Lyric poetry does not tell a story which portrays characters and actions. The lyric poet addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own feeling, state of mind, and perceptions.
Dying (aka I heard a fly buzz when I died ) 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.
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