• Poetry is literature in its most intense, most
imaginative and most rhythmic forms. William
Wordsworth explained poetry as: “The
spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings…recollected in tranquility.”
William Wordsworth 1770-1850
• Any form of writing that is not poetry is
considered prose.
• There are many different forms of poetry. Some
common examples of poetry include: Haiku,
limerick, ode, sonnet, ballad, cinquain, quatrain,
and free verse.
• A line is a single “sentence" of a poem
Above the windy trees
I seek the sun the leaves block out
I climb
I fall...
black
The poem above has five lines.
• Punctuation of poetry is up to the poet.
Letters at the beginning of a line can be
capitalized or lowercase. Periods, commas,
and/or semicolons can be used at the poets’
discretion.
• A stanza is a section or division of a poem. A
grouping of lines.
• A haiku is a poem that originated in Japan. It
captures the moment and creates an image.
Most haikus are about nature. The lines of this
poem are broken up into syllables. Haikus are
arranged by 5-7-5 syllables respectively.
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The cold winter wind (5 syllables)
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writes its message in shivers (7 syllables)
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on the drifting snow (5 syllables)
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Georgian Tashjian
• A limerick is a nonsense poem. This type of poem has
a definite pattern. It is a five line stanza rhyming aabba
in which lines one, two, and five rhyme and lines three
and four rhyme separately. Limericks first appeared in
1820. Edward Lear popularized the limerick by writing
the Book of Nonsense.
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There was an old dog named Perry
He was certainly hairy
He had grey hairs and white
It was quite a fright
Perry was really quite scary.
• Miss Mudd
• An ode is a poem that is meant to praise
something or someone.
Oh shoes, I love you
you're strong and you're stylish
you have a good…sole
I would have blisters if it weren't for you
Oh shoes, you're the best.
Miss Mudd
• A sonnet is a fourteen line poem. It originated
in Italy. There are two types of sonnets: an
Italian and Shakespearean (English). We are
going to learn the Shakespearean form. The
rhyme scheme of a sonnet is abab, cdcd, efef,
gg.
• A ballad is a type of narrative poetry, usually
tragic or violent. Ballads usually tell of
unhappy love affairs, war, murders, outlaws
and criminals or disasters. the stanza of the
ballad is usually four lines rhyming abcb.
• a cinquain is a five line stanza. a cinquain consists
of five unrhymed lines. It is arranged in syllables
in order of two, four, six, eight, two.
Listen…
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisped, break from the tress
And fall.
Adelaide Crapsey
• A quatrain is a stanza of four lines, rhymed or
unrhymed.
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The tumult of my fretted mind (a)
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Gives me expression of a kind; (a)
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But it is faulty, harsh, not plain-- (b)
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My work has the incompetence of pain. (b)
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Anna Wickham
• Another common poem, which can be written
any way you'd like is called a free verse. This
type of poem does not rhyme, does not have
a meter, follow any type of lines rules or
syllabication rules as well. Free verse often has
Irregular line lengths.
Today we shall rhyme and have a
great time!
• A common misconception about poetry is that
it all has to rhyme; in fact, this is untrue! Yes,
most poetry does tend to rhyme or follow a
rhythm but it is not necessary, to be
considered poetry.
• What is rhyme? Rhyme is the identical sound
between words. (Old/cold) (enough/rough)
• Most forms of rhyme used in poetry are end
rhyme. This type of rhyming occurs at the end of
the line.
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I dare not ask ask a kiss,
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I dare not beg a smile,
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Lest having that, or this,
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I might grow proud the while.
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Robert Herrick
• An internal rhyme is within the lines of the poem.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered
weak and weary.
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten
lore,
while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came
a tapping.
Edgar Allan Poe
• A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes in a
poem, usually indicated by letters of the
alphabet. (aabb)
• Rhythm is the patterned flow of sound of
poetry. Rhythm is based on meter, which is
the combination of accent and number of
syllables in a word.
• An eye rhyme is when looking at a poem it
looks, to the eye, that it would rhyme, but,
upon reading you'll notice the words do not in
fact rhyme.
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• If these delights thy mind may move,
• Come live with me and be my love.
• A ______________ rhyme is a rhyme
consisting of _______
_______________. (sending and blending)
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• An exact rhyme, also known as a true rhyme is
when accented syllables and all succeeding
sounds are identical. (Creature, feature).
• Meter is the fixed or nearly fixed pattern of accented and
unaccented syllables in the lines of a stanza that produces
its rhythm.
• Assonance is the close repetition of middle vowel sounds
between different consonant sounds. (fade/pale)
• Consonance is the close repetition of identical consonant
sounds before and after differing vowels. (leave/love,
short/shirt)
• There are many different ways to add emotion and feeling
to your poem. Being very detailed is one way.