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Haiku Poems. 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. What are Syllables. Syllables are units of sound.
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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.
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)
Lets Try It • How many syllables are in you partners name? • How many syllables are in the following words? • Syllable • Information • Poetry • Rhythm
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.
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
Green and speckled legs Hops on logs and lily-pads Splash in cool water
In a pouch I grow On a southern continent Strange creatures I know.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.