1. 12 Types of Poetry

2. Limerick A five line poem that is almost always humorous. It has an AABBA pattern.

3. Cinquain  A five line poetic form intended to show emotion. It’s pattern creates the shape of a Christmas tree. 2, 4, 6, 8, 2.

4. Diamante  An unrhymed poetic form named for it’s shape. It contains nouns, adjectives, verbs.

5. Haiku  Japanese poetic form consisting of three lines containing 17 syllables. It has a 5, 7, 5 pattern.

6. Acrostic  Poetic style in which the topic or title is written vertically. The poet then uses the letters in the title to develop each line of poetry. Each line in the poem describes the topic.

7. Name Poem  A poem in which one word of each letter of a person’s name or proper noun is used as the initial letter for one line of the poem.

8. Concrete Poem (Poetry Patterns)  Poems written in the shape of the poem’s main idea. They do not have to rhyme.

9. Quatrains  Four line poems that may follow any one of four different rhyme patterns. (AABB, ABAB, ABBA, ABCB)

10. ABC Poem  A poem written in short form and expresses strong emotion. The initial letters of the beginning words in each line are written alphabetically.

11. Alliteration  A poem written with the repetition of a sound in two or more neighboring words. It is the repeated use of an accented syllable that has the same beginning sound.

12. Sound poem  A poem that uses onomatopoeia to show the sounds that we hear all the time. Onomatopoeia is the use of words that sound like the noise they name.

13. Tanka poem  Oriental poem much like haiku, except that it has 5 lines with a 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 pattern. 31 syllables.