1. Types of Poems

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

3. 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

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

5. 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!

6. 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!'

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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, She is the Darling of my Heart, And she lives in our Alley.

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

12. Free Verse ‘What Is Poetry’ by John Ashbery The medieval town, with frieze Of boy scouts from Nagoya? The snow That came when we wanted it to snow? Beautiful images? Trying to avoid Ideas, as in this poem? But we Go back to them as to a wife, leaving The mistress we desire? Now they Will have to believe it As we believed it. In school All the thought got combed out: What was left was like a field. Shut your eyes, and you can feel it for miles around. Now open them on a thin vertical path. It might give us--what?--some flowers soon?

13. Sources http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/limerick.htm http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/240120 http://www.famousliteraryworks.com/limericks.htm http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174745 http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/glossaryItem.do?id=8091 http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/glossaryItem.do?id=8091 http://www.brighthubeducation.com/high-school-english- lessons/23750-writing-a-ballad-lesson-plan/ http://www.brighthubeducation.com/high-school-english- lessons/23750-writing-a-ballad-lesson-plan/