Forms+of+Poetry

There are many forms of poetry to explore during the month of April. As you discover new ones, list them below with a short definition. __**Be sure to link the form to a page where we can all place poems written in that form!**__ The first one has been done for you. ==Haiku is a poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture. Haiku combines __form__, __content__, and __language__ in a meaningful, yet compact form. Haiku poets, which you will soon be, write about everyday things. Many themes include nature, feelings, or experiences. Usually they use simple words and __grammar__. The most common form for Haiku is three short lines. The first line usually contains five (5) syllables, the second line seven (7) syllables, and the third line contains five (5) syllables. Haiku doesn't rhyme. A Haiku must "paint" a mental image in the reader's mind. This is the challenge of Haiku - to put the poem's meaning and __imagery__ in the reader's mind in ONLY 17 syllables over just three (3) lines of poetry! == **﻿**  **﻿** Haiku's Include: By: Sydney F. = **Cinquain** is a five line poem which describes a person, place, or thing. It comes from the French word for five, "cinq". The form is as follows: =
 * 1) Seasonal Words
 * 2) References to the senses
 * 3) Posing ideas

Line five: 2 syllables, SYNONYM OF 1st LINE

 * __Acrostic __ **is a poem when the first letter spells out a word or phrase. It comes from the Greek words //ákros// //stíchos// which means top verse. Example:


 * L**acrosse is my favorite sport
 * A**hhh the ball is coming my way
 * C**atch, cradle and throw
 * R**unning up and down the field
 * O**vertime is scary
 * S**printing to get the ball
 * S**o much fun
 * E**veryday after school

SONNET A sonnet is a poem with fourteen lines following a set rhyme scheme and logical structure. The first four lines of the sonnet usually introduce the topic of the sonnet. The sonnet has an a-b-a-b pattern of rhyming. Sonnets are usually associated with love. Shakespeare was famous for his sonnets.

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.” <span style="font-family: 'Bookman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">-William Shakespeare

<span style="font-family: 'Bookman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">ABC Poetry Style <span style="font-family: 'Bookman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">By: Paige P.

<span style="font-family: 'Bookman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Definition: An ABC poem is a poem that has lines to create a mood or a picture. The Lines are made of phrases. The lines each begin with a different letter in alphabetical order. For example, line 1 will begin with A, line 2 will begin with B, etc.

<span style="font-family: 'Bookman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">AN EXAMPLE: A lthough things are not perfect B ecause of trial or pain C ontinue in thanksgiving D o not begin to blame E ven when the times are hard F ierce winds are bound to blow

Tercet By: Monica Gonzalez Tercets are any three lines of poetry, whether as a stanza or as a poem, rhymed or unrhymed, metered or unmetered. The tercet is a poetry form with Italian roots. The haiku is a tercet poem. Example:


 * The Eagle**

He clasps the crag with crooked hands: Close to the sun it lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, it stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.

**c****olor poems: valeria O** **Choose a** **c****olor and describe or compare things that have that color.**

** Red comes from Santa’s red cheeks ** ** As red as a berry. ** ** Red hides in a rainbow in the ** ** Soft, swift sky in the summertime. ** ** Red feels like love from your mother ** ** Anytime you’re sick. ** ** Red smells like a fresh scented ** ** Rose that just bloomed in your garden. ** ** Red works as a good luck color ** ** in a Country with over 2 billion people, ** ** Called China. ** ** Red is a color of embarrassment. **

Enjambment Poem -Kiki Dominguez An Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence form one line or couplet into the next. For example:

**Trees** **by** **Joyce Kilmer**

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

Lyric poetry By: Angie Tena Lyrics poetry consists of a poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyrics is now commonly referred to as the words to a song. Lyrics 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. ** Click the following link for the full version of [|Dying] **
 * Rhymes: **
 * A rhyming poem has repetition or similar sounding words in different lines of 2 or 3 words per line. This type of poem is often used in nursery rhymes because it is easy to remember. For example: **


 * Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, **
 * Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, **
 * All the Kings horses, and all the kings men, **
 * Couldn't put Humpty back together again! **
 * Hannah A. **

**Limericks are short sometimes bawdy, humorous poems of consisting of five [|Anapaestic] lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 of a Limerick have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other. Edward Lear is famous for his Book of Nonsense which included the poetry form of Limericks.** || Example: ** Examples of Limericks ** ** by ** ** Edward Lear ** ** There was an Old Man of Vienna, ** ** Who lived upon Tincture of Senna; ** ** When that did not agree, ** ** He took Camomile Tea, ** ** That nasty Old Man of Vienna. **
 * ** Definition of Limericks **

** There was an Old Person whose habits, ** ** Induced him to feed upon rabbits; ** ** When he'd eaten eighteen, ** ** He turned perfectly green, ** ** Upon which he relinquished those habits. **

** There was an Old Man of the West, ** ** Who wore a pale plum-coloured vest; ** ** When they said, 'Does it fit?' ** ** He replied, 'Not a bit!' ** ** That uneasy Old Man of the West. **

** There was an Old Man in a tree, ** ** Who was horribly bored by a Bee; ** ** When they said, 'Does it buzz?' ** ** He replied, 'Yes, it does!' ** ** 'It's a regular brute of a Bee!' **

** There was an Old Man in a boat, ** ** Who said, 'I'm afloat, I'm afloat!' ** ** When they said, 'No! you ain't!' ** ** He was ready to faint, ** ** That unhappy Old Man in a boat. ** <span style="color: #f14bd5; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kate H <span style="color: #f14bd5; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">**Blank Verse** <span style="color: #f14bd5; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">**definition-** <span style="color: #f14bd5; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Blank Verse is Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse is often unobtrusive and the iambic pentameter form often resembles the rhythms of ordinary speech. William Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse.**

<span style="color: #f14bd5; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Example of Blank Verse- <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">**Excerpt from Macbeth** <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">**by** <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">**William Shakespeare** Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">A couplet poem
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Lexi A

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Example:
====<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Constantina,Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; line-height: 21px;">// Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall/Humpty Dumpty had a great fall/All the king's horses and all the king's men/Couldn't put Humpty together again!" // ====

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Constantina,Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%; line-height: 21px;">// -famous nursery rhyme //
Ballad by Ellie P A ballad is a form of poetry that is often set to music. Most ballads are written in four line stanzas and in iambic tetrameter. Usually, the second and fourth line of a stanza are the only lines that rhyme. Ballads are usually used to express deep emotions.

<span style="color: #3c605b; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 13px; text-align: left;">**Ballad of women i love by Eugene Field ** Prudence Mears hath an old blue plate Hid away in an oaken chest, And a Franklin platter of ancient date Beareth Amandy Baker's crest; What times soever I've been their guest, Says I to myself in an undertone: "Of womenfolk, it must be confessed, These do I love, and these alone."

Well, again, in the Nutmeg State, Dorothy Pratt is richly blest With a relic of art and a land effete-- A pitcher of glass that's cut, not pressed. And a Washington teapot is possessed Down in Pelham by Marthy Stone-- Think ye now that I say in jest "These do I love, and these alone?"

Were Hepsy Higgins inclined to mate, Or Dorcas Eastman prone to invest In Cupid's bonds, they could find their fate In the bootless bard of Crockery Quest. For they've heaps of trumpery--so have the rest Of those spinsters whose ware I'd like to own; You can see why I say with such certain zest, "These do I love, and these alone."Free VerseIsabella Marshall <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: center;">** Definition of Free Verse ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: center;">** Free Verse is a form of Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern. The early 20th-century poets were the first to write what they called "free verse" which allowed them to break from the formula and rigidity of traditional poetry. **

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: center;">** Example of Free Verse ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: center;">** Song of Myself ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: center;">** by ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: center;">** Walt Whitman ** <span style="color: #0d0d0d; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: center;"> I celebrate myself, and sing myself, <span style="color: #0d0d0d; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: center;"> And what I assume you shall assume, <span style="color: #0d0d0d; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: center;"> For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. <span style="color: #0d0d0d; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: center;"> I loaf and invite my soul, <span style="color: #0d0d0d; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: center;"> I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

<span style="color: #0d0d0d; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: center;">Shape Poem <span style="color: #0d0d0d; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 14px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: center;">A shape poem is a poem that if formatted to form the shape of the object it is describing - Sarah Mazer

__**<span style="color: #0a7575; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> @Name Poems **__
A name poem is a poem that is used to describe one word. After the first line, which describes the word, the first letter of the rest of the lines spells out the object or name you are describing. - Chanler Harris

<span style="color: #9900cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Irony
<span style="color: #9900cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">**Irony illustrates a situation, or a use of language, involving some kind of discrepancy. The result of an action or situation is the reverse of what is expected. A famous example of irony is ''Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink' in the Ancient Mariner.**  <span style="color: #9900cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">**example:**

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Rime of the Ancient Mariner**
 * by**
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge**

<span style="color: #9900cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.

<span style="color: #9900cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">Daniela Salcedo.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0ccacf; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;"> TANKA POEMS - Sophie Brooke
<span style="color: #0ccacf; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Tanka poems are a Japanese form of poetry and they are the oldest style of writing in Japan. The first and third lines have five syllables while the other lines have seven syllables.

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #0ccacf; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: normal;">"The leaves change color When the fall winds start to blow, Yellow, orange and brown Are the colors of fall leaves, Slowly falling from the trees"

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