1. UnBEElievable POETRY

2. (usually using lines and stanzas)
POETRY is…
a type of literature that expresses ideas and feelings, or tells a story in a specific form
(usually using lines and stanzas)

3. SOME TYPES OF POETRY THAT WE WILL BE STUDYING

4. house/mouse lamp/camp
RHYMED POEMS
Poems using words in their lines that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds. (end rhyme, near rhyme, internal rhyme)
dog/log bring/string
house/mouse lamp/camp

5. (See next slide for an example.)
RHYME SCHEME
A pattern of rhyming words or sounds (usually end rhyme, but not always).
Use the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually “see” the pattern.
(See next slide for an example.)
Activity: Rhyme Scheme group game

6. SAMPLE RHYME SCHEME A mighty creature is the germ,
Though smaller than the pachyderm.
His customary dwelling place
Is deep within the human race.
His childish pride he often pleases
By giving people strange diseases.
Do you, my poppet, feel infirm?
You probably contain a germ.
-“The Germ” by Ogden Nash A B C

7. Queen Bee (What’s the Rhyme Scheme?)
I am no ordinary bee:
I’m royalty, a queen you see!
I don’t just raise a family-
I rule a whole society!
Each day I lay two thousand eggs.
Believe me-that’s tough on the legs!
My doting daughters feed my belly,
And I was raised on royal jelly.
My princely sons are known as drones-
Not one of those boys ever phones!
When it’s too crammed,
Then I take wing.
With such a life –
Who needs a king?!
Douglas Florian

8. Queen Bee (Rhyme Scheme)
I am no ordinary bee: A
I’m royalty, a queen you see! A
I don’t just raise a family A
I rule a whole society! A
Each day I lay two thousand eggs. B
Believe me-that’s tough on the legs! B
My doting daughters feed my belly, C
And I was raised on royal jelly C
My princely sons are known as drones- D
Not one of those boys ever phones! D
When it’s too crammed, E
Then I take wing F
With such a life – G
Who needs a king?! F
Douglas Florian

9. END RHYME
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Hector the Collector
Collected bits of string.
Collected dolls with broken heads
And rusty bells that would not ring.
-”Hector the Collector” by Shel Silverstein A B C

10. INTERNAL RHYME
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December
- “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

11. NEAR RHYME
Also known as imperfect or “close enough” rhyme. The words share EITHER the same vowel or consonant sound BUT NOT BOTH
ROSE
LOSE
Different vowel sounds (long “o” and “oo” sound)
Share the same consonant sound (“s”)

12. FREE VERSE POEMS
Does NOT have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables
Does NOT have rhyme
Very conversational - sounds like someone talking with you
Example: See “Fog” by Carl Sandburg

13. FOG The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
CARL SANDBURG

14. Examples are: HAIKU SENRYU QUATRAIN CINQUAIN LIMERICK DIAMANTE
PATTERNED POEMS
Examples are:
HAIKU
SENRYU
QUATRAIN
CINQUAIN
LIMERICK
DIAMANTE

15. HAIKU
Japanese style poem written in three lines Focuses traditionally on nature Lines respectively are 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables
Whitecaps on the bay:
A broken signboard banging
In the April wind.
-untitled haiku by Richard Wright

16. SENRYU A senryu follows same pattern as haiku.
Written in 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, with total of 17 syllables.
Is about human nature, rather
than natural world.
First day, new school year,
backpack harbors a fossil…
last June’s cheese sandwich.
Cristine O’Connell George

17. QUATRAIN
Stanza or short poem containing four lines Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme, while lines 1 and 3 may or may not rhyme Variations in rhyming patterns (abab, abcb) A B C
O, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O, my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune.
-from “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns

18. CINQUAIN
Stanza or short poem containing five lines 1 word, 2 words, 3 words, 4 words, 1 word Patterns and syllables are changing!

19. CINQUAIN cont’ Cinquain Pattern #1 Line1: One word Line2: Two words
Line 3: Three words
Line 4: Four words
Line 5: One word
Dinosaurs
Lived once,
Long ago, but
Only dust and dreams
Remain
-by Cindy Barden

20. Braying, kicking, resisting
CINQUAIN cont’
Cinquain Pattern #2
Line1: A noun
Line2: Two adjectives
Line 3: Three -ing words
Line 4: A phrase
Line 5: Another word for the noun
Mules
Stubborn, unmoving
Braying, kicking, resisting
Not wanting to listen
People
-by Cindy Barden

21. CINQUAIN cont’ Cinquain Pattern #3 Line1: Two syllables
Line2: Four syllables
Line 3: Six syllables
Line 4: Eight syllables
Line 5: Two syllables
Baseball
Bat cracks against
The pitch, sending it out
Over the back fence, I did it!
Homerun
-by Cindy Barden

22. LIMERICK
A five line poem with rhymes in line 1, 2, and 5, and then another rhyme in lines 3 and 4
What is a limerick, Mother?
It's a form of verse, said Brother
In which lines one and two
Rhyme with five when it's through
And three and four rhyme with each other.
- untitled and author unknown A B

23. DIAMANTE Set structure: Seven line poem shaped like a diamond.
Line 1 and line 7 contrast each other. Unrhymed.
Set structure:
Line 1: Noun (subject 1)
Line 2: 2 adjectives describing subject 1
Line 3: 3 verbs ending in “ly” related to subject 1
Line 4: 2 nouns related to subject 1, 2 nouns relating to
subject 2
Line 5: 3 verbs ending in “ly” related to subject 2
Line 6: 2 adjectives describing subject 2
Line 7: Noun (subject 2)

24. Example of a Diamante Snuggling, purring, licking
Kitten
Soft, cute
Snuggling, purring, licking
meow, hiss, bark, growl
running, chasing, biting
fluffy, smooth
puppies
DAY
Sunny, Bright
Playing, Sweating, Burning
Sun, Light, Darkness, Moon
Scaring, Setting, Sleeping
Black, Stars
NIGHT

25. Are you ready to create a free verse, rhyming or patterned poem?
Give it a try, and we’ll share out our creations.

26. For this presentation, I borrowed information from a book and two PowerPoints and adapted them for this lesson.
Florian, Douglas. UnBEElievables: HoneybeePoems and Paintings.
New York: Beach Lane, Print.