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Haiku Connection: A Journey Through Japanese Poetry Forms

Explore the art of haiku and limericks, delve into syllables and rhyme schemes, and craft your own poetic creations in this engaging guide. Unleash your creativity and master the beauty of concise verse forms.

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Haiku Connection: A Journey Through Japanese Poetry Forms

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  1. Haiku Poems

  2. Haiku • Haiku poems are Japanese and contain only 3 lines. • The poems are used to paint a picture in the readers mind. • Each line has a certain number of syllables.

  3. What are Syllables • Syllables are units of sound. • Syllables usually contain a vowel and accompanying consonants. Sometimes syllables are referred to as the 'beats' of spoken language. • Example: free (1 syllable) eating (2 syllables….eat/ing) worrying (3 syllables…wor/ry/ing)

  4. Lets Try It • How many syllables are in you partners name? • How many syllables are in the following words? • Syllable • Information • Poetry • Rhythm

  5. Haiku • The first line of every haiku has 5 syllables • The second contains 7 syllables. • The final line contains 5 syllables. • This forms a 5,7,5 pattern. • Haikus are usually about nature.

  6. Summer’s gone The leaves fell slowly The/leaves/fell/slow/ly To the unforgiving ground To/the/un/for/giv/ing/ground Too soon – summer’s gone! Too/soon/sum/mer’s/gone! 5 7 5

  7. Green and speckled legs Hops on logs and lily-pads Splash in cool water

  8. In a pouch I grow On a southern continent Strange creatures I know.

  9. Limericks • Alimerick is a kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem • In five-line or meter with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA). • The form can be found in England in the early years of the 18th century • It was popularized by Edward Lear in the 19th century. • Alimerick is usually used in English folk poetry

  10. Rhyme Scheme- AABBA A flea and a fly in a flue Were caught, so what could they do? Said the fly, "Let usflee." "Let us fly," said the flea. So they flew through a flaw in the flu

  11. LIMERICK The limerick packs laughs anatomical Into space that is quite economical. But the good ones I've seen So seldom are clean - And the clean ones so seldom are comical.

  12. Limerick • There was a Young Lady of Portugal,Whose ideas were excessively nautical* She climbed up a tree, To examine the sea, But declared she would never leave Portugal. * excessively nautical – very sensitive

  13. The Rhythm is just as important in a limerick as the rhyme. Try completing the limerick. • There once was a pauper* named_______ • Who accidentally broke her _______. • She slipped on the ______. • Not once, but thrice • Take no pity* on her, __________. *pauper – very poor person *pity – to feel sorry

  14. Examples. DO NOT COPY Haiku 1. Pink cherry blossoms Cast shimmering reflections On seas of Japan . 2. Green and speckled legs,Hop on logs and lily padsSplash in cool water. Limerick The Man From Aruba There once was a man from Aruba, Whose favorite hobby was scuba. Every day he would wish, He could spear a big fish. But settled instead for canned tuna.

  15. NOW MAKE YOUR OWN! • Pick an animal. • Write a haiku about the animal you picked. Pick a season (Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring) Write a Haiku about the season you picked.

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