Types of Poetry

1. Types of Poetry Lesson EQ: How do I create different types of poetry?

2. Haiku • Haiku is a type of poem which comes from the Japanese culture. • Many themes include nature, feelings, or experiences. • The most common form for Haiku is three short lines. • The first line usually contains five (5) syllables, • the second line contains 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

3. Haiku The Rose Donna Brock The red blossom bends and drips its dew to the ground. Like a tear it falls

4. Haiku A Rainbow Donna Brock Curving up, then down. Meeting blue sky and green earth Melding sun and rain.

5. Limerick • A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. • If a couplet is a two-line pattern is a a b b rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. • The rhyme a with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and • lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming. • Some people say that the limerick was invented by soldiers returning from France to the Irish town of Limerick in the 1700's. • Limericks are meant to be funny. • They often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns, and other figurative devices. The last line of a good limerick contains the PUNCH LINE or "heart of the joke." As you work with limericks, remember to have pun, I mean FUN!

6. Limerick • Say the following limericks out loud and clap to the rhythm. A flea and a fly in a flue Were caught, so what could they do? Said the fly, "Let us flee." "Let us fly," said the flea. So they flew through a flaw in the flue. -Anonymous

7. Limerick • You will soon hear the distinctive beat pattern of all limericks. The rhythm is just as important in a limerick as the rhyme. Try completing this limerick. There once was a pauper named Meg Who accidentally broke her _______. She slipped on the ______. Not once, but thrice Take no pity on her, I __________.

8. Lyrical Lesson: Limericks 1. Practice the rhythm of limericks by clapping you hands or snapping your fingers. 2. Think of some funny names, places, or situations. 3. Using the a a b b a 5-line form, write an original limerick. 4. How would you illustrate the page if your poem was published in a book of limericks? What types of art would you use?

9. Cinquain A cinquain is a five line poem. Line 1: one word(subject or noun) Line 2: two words(adjectives) that describe line 1 Line 3: three words “ing” words(action verbs) that relate to line 1 Line 4: four words(feelings or a complete sentence) that relates to line 1 Line 5: one word(synonym of line 1 or a word that sums it up)

10. Cinquain trianglespointy edgesrevolving, rotating, anglingTriangles are all different.180o

11. Cinquain • Cinquain poems can have three different patterns

12. Cinquain Pattern #1 Line1: One word Line2: Two words Line 3: Three words Line 4: Four words Line 5: One word Examples Dinosaurs Lived once, Long ago, but Only dust and dreams Remain

13. Cinquain Pattern #2 Spaghetti Messy, spicy Slurping, sliding, falling Between my plate and mouth Delicious • Line1: A noun • Line2: Two adjectives • Line 3: Three -ing words • Line 4: A phrase • Line 5: Another word for the noun

14. Cinquain Pattern #3 Baseball Bat cracks against The pitch, sending it out Over the back fence, I did it! Homerun • Line1: Two syllables • Line2: Four syllables • Line 3: Six syllables • Line 4: Eight syllables • Line 5: Two syllables

15. Concrete A concrete poem is one that takes the shape of the object it describes.

16. Concrete Poetry

17. Concrete Poetry • Use the following link to create a concrete poem. • Concrete Poetry • Print Poem and place in your group’s folder.