Poetry

1. Poetry

2. Types of Poetry • ABC Poem • Couplet • Quatrain • Cinquain • Refrain • Free Verse • Lyric • Limerick • Haiku • Narrative • Epic • Ballad

3. ABC Poem • An ABC poem has a series of lines that create a mood, picture, or feeling. Lines are made up of words and phrases. The first word of line 1 begins with an A, the first word of line 2 begins with a B etc. • Although things are not perfectBecause of trial or painContinue in thanksgivingD o not begin to blameEven when the times are hardFierce winds are bound to blow

4. Couplet • A Couplet is a Stanza of only two lines which usually rhyme. Shakespearean (also called Elizabethan and English) sonnets usually end in a couplet and are a pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought. • Sonnet 116by William Shakespeare • ...Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never write, nor no man ever loved.

5. Quatrain • A Quatrain Poem Type or literary term is a stanza or poem of four lines. Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme. Lines 1 and 3 may or may not rhyme. Rhyming lines should have a similar number of syllables • Tygerby William Blake • Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?

6. Cinquain • Cinquain Poetry Type has five lines. • Line 1 is one word (the title)Line 2 is two words that describe the title.Line 3 is three words that tell the actionLine 4 is four words that express the feelingLine 5 is one word that recalls the title • TreeStrong, TallSwaying, swinging, sighingMany memories of summerOak

7. Refrain • The word 'Refrain'  derives from the Old French word refraindre meaning to repeat. Refrain Poetry is a phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem, usually after each stanza. • The Ravenby Edgar Allan Poe • And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted nevermore.

8. Free Verse • 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. • Song of Myselfby Walt Whitman • I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loaf and invite my soul,I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

9. Lyric • Lyric Poetry consists of a poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now commonly referred to as the words to a song. Lyric 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 formWas like the stillness in the airBetween the heaves of storm.

10. Limerick • Limericks are short sometimes bawdy, humorous poems of consisting of five 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. • Limerick from the Book of NonsensebyEdward Lear • There was an Old Man with a gong,Who bumped at it all day long;But they called out, 'O law!You're a horrid old bore!'So they smashed that Old Man with a gong.

11. Haiku • Haiku Poetry Type is a Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Haiku poetry originated in the sixteenth century and reflects on some aspect of nature and creates images. • Christmas-Ron Loeffler • Glass balls and glowing lights.Dead tree in living room. • Killed to honor birth. • Urban-Haiku Michael R. Collings • Silence--a strangledTelephone has forgottenThat it should ring

12. Narrative • Narrative poems tell a story and are found in different types of poetry such as epics and ballads. All of these examples are different kinds of narrative poems some of which are the length of a book such as The Iliad. • John Barleycornby Robert Burns • There was three kings into the east, Three kings both great and high, And they have sworn a solemn oath, John Barleycorn should die.

13. Epic • Epic Poems are long, serious poems that tells the story of a heroic figure. • Hiawatha's Departurefrom The Song of Hiawathaby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • By the shore of GitchieGumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.

14. Ballad • Ballad Poems are poems that tell a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain. A ballad is often about love and often sung. A ballad is a story in poetic form. • The MermaidbyUnknown author • Oh the ocean waves may roll, And the stormy winds may blow, While we poor sailors go skipping aloft And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below And the land lubbers lay down below.