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Types of Poems

Types of Poems. There are way more than you’d think!. Poetic Forms. Sonnet: The most common form of poetry A poem of 14 lines following a set rhyme scheme and logical structure First four lines introduce the topic Follows an A-B-A-B rhyme pattern Particularly associated with love

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Types of Poems

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  1. Types of Poems There are way more than you’d think!

  2. Poetic Forms Sonnet: • The most common form of poetry • A poem of 14 lines following a set rhyme scheme and logical structure • First four lines introduce the topic • Follows an A-B-A-B rhyme pattern • Particularly associated with love • Shakespeare's sonnets are among the most famous in English poetry

  3. Shakespeare - Sonnet 130 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

  4. Poetic Forms Haiku: • Popular form of unrhymed Japanese poetry • structured in a 5-7-5 pattern • Contain a kigo (seasonal reference), and a kireji (cutting word)

  5. Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) Japanese: 富士の風や扇にのせて江戸土産 fuji no kaze ya oogi ni nosete Edo miyage English Translation: The wind of Mt. Fuji I've brought on my fan! A gift from Edo

  6. Poetic Forms Ode: • First developed by ancient Greeks • Has three parts: a strophe, an antistrophe, and an epode • Serious subject & often sung • Think “Ode to Joy” by Beethoven (We all know it!)

  7. Other Poetic Forms Fixed Verse: • Follow a particular pattern (all of the above) Free Verse: • Doesn’t use patterns or rhyme  ANYTHING GOES! (opposite of Fixed) Poetry Slam: • A modern style of spoken word poetry • Highly politicized (i.e. Taylor Mali)

  8. Other Poetic Forms Limerick: • A stanza of five lines • 1st , 2nd and 5th usually rhyme and have three ‘feet’ • The shorter 3rd and 4th lines also rhyme with each other, but have only two ‘feet’ of three syllables There once was a man from Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

  9. Other Poetic Forms Palindrome: • Text that is read in either direction • Most often in words, but can also be in sentences and, rarely, in poems

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