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Types of Poetry
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BY MARY KOMLOFSKE
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Given an instructional powerpoint informing students
about different types of poetry, students will be able to
answer quiz questions that require identifying these
poems and their characteristics with 100% accuracy.
Learners and Learning Environment
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Learners:
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High school age – likely freshman
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Familiar with the basic idea of poetry and some poems
Learning Environment:
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High School level English classroom
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Smaller class, working individually
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Each have access to their own version of this powerpoint
Why Poetry?
Objectives:
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Given an instructional powerpoint informing students
about different types of poetry, students will be able to
answer quiz questions that require identifying these
poems and their characteristics with 100% accuracy.
Why Poetry?
Haiku
Limerick
Ballad
Acrostic
Villanelle
Sonnet
Epic
Concrete
Poetry
Cinquain
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Haiku
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A Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry that does not
rhyme.
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It is composed of three lines: 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the
second, and 5 again in the third.
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Haiku poets are called “Haijin”.
Haiku
In the twilight rain,
These brilliant-hued hibiscus—
A lovely sunset.
-Basho
Haikus are easy,
But sometimes they don’t make sense.
Refrigerator.
-Anonymous
Review!
A Haiku has how many syllables in its third line?
A
5
B
7
C
10
D
There is no third line.
Review!
A Haiku has how many syllables in its third line?
A haiku has a 5-7-5 pattern. Five
syllables in the first line, seven in the
second line, and five again in the
last line.
A
5
B
7
C
10
D
There is no third line.
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Limerick
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A Limerick is a poem where lines 1, 2, and 5 have 7-10
syllables and all rhyme with one another, and lines 3 and
4 are a 5-7 syllable rhyming couplet.
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Due to its silly rhythm, it is often used for (sometimes
vulgar) humor.
Limerick
1) There once was a man from Peru,
2) Who dreamed he was eating his shoe.
3) He woke with a fright
4) In the middle of the night
5) To find that his dream had come true.
Review!
What kind of poetry is the Limerick used for?
A
Romance
B
Humor
C
Narrative
D
None of the Above
Review!
What kind of poetry is the Limerick used for?
Due to its silly-sounding nature,
Limericks are primarily used for
humor.
A
Romance
B
Humor
C
Narrative
D
None of the Above
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Ballad
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A ballad is a short narrative poem, intended to be sung.
It can be about any number of things, as long as it tells a
story.
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They can be serious or humorous, but often have a moral
at the end.
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The ballad can rhyme, but it doesn’t have to.
Ballad
The Bird Don’t Mean You’re Number One – Joe Murphy
So you woke up face down on
the street
And you don't know the time
or day of the week
And want me to serve you
a hair of the dog
To steady your nerves and
clear out the fog.
Now I ain't no expert on God's
fairer sex
You can check, here's the
number you can go call my ex
But you musta done something
to make the girl sad Cos the bird
is reserved for the baddest of
bad
If the last thing you remember
from the night before
Is the bird she that she flipped
as she walked through the door
And she wasn't suggesting you
was her number one
You got a whole lot of crawling
ahead of you son.
You better pick up the phone
and hitch up your jeans
And beg her forgiveness for
being so mean
Some flowers wouldn't hurt,
even throw in a nice dinner
Cos from where I was standing
she looked like a winner.
Review!
What is the only requirement for a Ballad?
A
It rhymes.
B
It has 10 lines.
C
It tells a story.
D
It’s in iambic pentameter.
Review!
What kind of poetry is the Limerick used for?
A Ballad’s only requirement is it tells
a story. Anything else is variable.
A
It rhymes.
B
It has 10 lines.
C
It tells a story.
D
It’s in iambic pentameter.
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Acrostic
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An Acrostic poem is any poem where the first letter of
each stanza spell out a word when looked at vertically.
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These poems can vary from the simple name-poems
most people did in kindergarten to sophisticated highlevel poetry.
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There is wide variation in Acrostic poems.
Acrostic
Elizabeth it is in vain you say
"Love not" — thou sayest it in so sweet a way:
In vain those words from thee or L.E.L.
Zantippe's talents had enforced so well:
Ah! if that language from thy heart arise,
Breath it less gently forth — and veil thine eyes.
Endymion, recollect, when Luna tried
To cure his love — was cured of all beside —
His follie — pride — and passion — for he died.
-Edgar Allen Poe, “An Acrostic”
Review!
What can the first letter of each acrostic line spell?
A
A name
B
The title of the poem
C
A hidden message
D
All of the above
Review!
What can the first letter of each acrostic line spell?
There is a wide variation in acrostic
poems. It can spell out anything as
long as it’s relevant.
A
A name
B
The title of the poem
C
A hidden message
D
All of the above
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Villanelle
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A Villanelle is a poem with a particularly complicated set
of rules.
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Each line is in iambic pentameter, and each stanza
contains three lines, with the exception of the final stanza.
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The first and third lines of each stanza must always rhyme.
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The first and third lines of the first stanza alternate as the
final lines of the next three stanzas.
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The final stanza has four lines, with the first line of the first
stanza being the third line and the third line of the final
stanza being the last line.
Villanelle
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old men should rant and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men in the end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-”Do not go gentle into that good night”, Dylan Thomas
Review!
Which lines get repeated in a villanelle?
A
Just the first line
B
Just the third line
C
No lines are repeated
D
Both the first and third lines
Review!
Which lines get repeated in a villanelle?
The first and the third lines alternate
as the ends of all other stanzas.
A
Just the first line
B
Just the third line
C
No lines are repeated
D
Both the first and third lines
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Sonnet
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The sonnet is one of the most popular forms of poetry,
and comes in a few different varieties.
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A sonnet consists of 14 lines, in iambic pentameter. They
usually have a simple rhyme scheme, but modern
sonnets sometimes don’t.
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Though he is famous mostly for his plays, Shakespeare
wrote a collection of 154 sonnets. “Shakespearean
sonnet” is a subcategory of the sonnet.
Sonnet
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Review!
Who is the most famous writer of sonnets?
A
Shakespeare
B
Shel Silverstein
C
Oscar Wilde
D
Dylan Thomas
Review!
Who is the most famous writer of sonnets?
A
Shakespeare
B
Shel Silverstein
C
Oscar Wilde
D
Dylan Thomas
Shakespeare wrote over one
hundred sonnets, and they are only
slightly less famous than his plays.
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Epic
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An Epic is a long, narrative poem. It does not necessarily
have a particular format, but is often read orally.
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The Odyssey and The Iliad by Homer are the
quintessential epics.
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Epics were most popular in earlier ages, but there are still
modern epics today.
Epic
… “So I spake, and quickly they [the men]
hearkened to my words. But of Scylla I told them
nothing more, a bane none might deal with, lest
haply my company should cease from rowing for
fear, and hide them in the hold. In that same hour
I suffered myself to forget the hard behest of
Circe, in that she bade me in nowise be armed;
but I did on my glorious harness and caught up
two long lances in my hands, and went on the
decking of the prow, for thence methought that
Scylla of the rock would first be seen, who was to
bring woe on my company. Yet could I not spy
her anywhere, and my eyes waxed weary for
gazing all about toward the darkness of the rock.”
…
-Excerpt from The Odyssey
Review!
Which of the following is an epic poem?
A
The Iliad
B
Hamlet
C
Harry Potter
D
The Giving Tree
Review!
Who is the most famous writer of sonnets?
The Iliad is one of the most famous
epic poems from Ancient Greece.
A
The Iliad
B
Hamlet
C
Harry Potter
D
The Giving Tree
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Concrete Poetry
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Concrete poetry is also known as pattern or shape poetry.
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This poetry is focused not only on the words used, but how
they are formed. Poems often take specific shapes or have
specific structures to convey meaning.
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This sort of poetry has been around a long time, but the term is
relatively new.
Concrete Poetry
Review!
Concrete poems focus more on ______ than language.
A
Shape
B
Color
C
Rhyme
D
Audience
Review!
Concrete poems focus more on ______ than language.
A
Shape
B
Color
C
Rhyme
D
Audience
Concrete poems are also called
shape poems because they focus
on the structure of the poem rather
than the poem itself.
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Cinquain
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A Cinquain is a poem with five lines in a specific pattern.
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The lines are structured like this:
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Line 1: One Word.
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Line 2: Two Words.
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Line 3: Three Words.
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Line 4: Four Words.
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Line 5: One Word.
Cinquain
“My Bed’s Just Here For The Cat”:
Fatcat,
Hairy nuisance
Sprawling over bedsheets
Crowding limited sleepspace with
Blubber.
Review!
A Cinquain’s first and last line have how many words?
A
Four
B
One
C
Three
D
Six
Review!
A Cinquain’s first and last line have how many words?
A
Four
B
One
C
Three
D
Six
A Cinquain’s first and last line each
contain one word.
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Practice Question 1: Identify the type of
poem.
A
Villanelle
B
Limerick
C
Cinquain
D
Acrostic
Hockey is good exercise.
Och!I got hit.
Come and play.
Kind of ruff.
Evening of hockey.
Yoch!I got checked.
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Practice Question 2: Identify the type of
poem.
A
Limerick
B
Ballad
C
Sonnet
D
Villanelle
The marriage of poor Kim Kardashian
Was krushed like a kar in a krashian.
Her kris kried, not fair!
Why kan’t I keep my share?
But Kardashian fell clean out of fashian.
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Practice Question 3: Identify the type of
poem.
A
Epic
B
Cinquain
C
Ballad
D
Concrete Poem
Triangles
Pointy edges
Revolving, rotating, angling
Triangles are all different.
180o
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Question 1: Which of these types of
poem must rhyme?
A
Limerick
B
Haiku
C
Ballad
D
Acrostic
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Question 2: Which of these poem types is
the longest?
A
Haiku
B
Villanelle
C
Sonnet
D
Epic
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Question 3: Shakespeare commonly
wrote which type of poem?
A
Sonnet
B
Cinquain
C
Epic
D
Limerick
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Question 4: Which of these must be in
iambic pentameter?
A
Epic
B
Concrete Poem
C
Cinquain
D
Villanelle
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Question 5: Which of these poem types
focus most on structure?
A
Acrostic
B
Concrete Poem
C
Sonnet
D
Ballad
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