CREATIVE WRITING
POETRY
Part 2
ACROSTIC -
a type of poetry where the first,
last or other letters in a line spell out a particular word
Example – An acrostic poem using
the beginning of lines
Example - An acrostic poem using the
end of lines
Cinquain -
a verse of five lines that do not
rhyme.
• A cinquain consists of five
unrhymed lines.
• Each line has a set number
of syllables see below:
• Line
Line
Line
Line
Line
1:
2:
3:
4:
5:
2
4
6
8
2
syllables
syllables
syllables
syllables
syllables
• Example
• My mum (2 syllables)
Is so caring (4 syllables)
She is always helpful (6
syllables)
She is so beautiful and kind
(8 syllables)
Love you. (2 syllables)
Haiku -
a Japanese poem
consists of 3 lines and 17
syllables.
Each line has a set number of
syllables see below:
Line 1 – 5 syllables
Line 2 – 7 syllables
Line 3 – 5 syllables
• Example
• (5) The sky is so
blue.
(7) The sun is so
warm up high.
(5) I love the
summer.
Lyric
• A Lyric is a
poem that
expresses
personal and
emotional
feelings.
• An example
of a Lyric
poem
• No, there are no regrets since you walked
my way
No, there are no regrets since we met that
day
• Those cheesy walks along the beach still
fill my mind
Those cheesy lines you always managed
to find
Only you could get away with such things
But happiness and joy you seemed to
bring
A holiday in the sun went by in a dream
Moving in seemed the logical thing
• No, there are no regrets since you walked
my way
No, there are no regrets since we met that
day
Riddle –
describes something w/o actually
naming it.
Example –
It is an animal
It is orange and black
It has stripes
It has four paws
It lives in the jungle
What is it?
A tiger.
Example –
I come in different styles
I can help you walk for miles
I come in a pair
I’m something you wear
With heels I am glam
Can you guess what I am …?
Shoes.
Shape Poem -
a type of poetry that describes an object and is
shaped the same as the object the poem is describing.
Example A
volcano.
a huge rock,
shooting lava up into
the air! Everyone runs for
cover. Lots of thick, black smoke
pours out of the top, giving you a warning
before the explosions start. Nothing can stand in its
way. Sometimes they don’t blow up for hundreds of years.
Still thousands in the world but they don’t all work, some are even underwater.
Tanka
- a Japanese poem similar to a haiku but has two
additional lines.
• Consists of 5 lines and
31 syllables.
• Each line has a set
number of syllables see
below:
•
•
•
•
•
Line
Line
Line
Line
Line
1
2
3
4
5
–
–
–
–
–
5
7
5
7
7
syllables
syllables
syllables
syllables
syllables
• Example –
• (5) I love my kitten.
(7) She is so little
and cute.
(5) She has a pink
tongue,
(7) And lots of long
whiskers too.
(7) She purrs when
I stroke her back.
Tybur - a six line poetic form
Example
• The first four lines
consist of just a
single two syllabled
word each that all
rhyme.
• The last two lines
are nine syllables
where the fifth to
eighth syllables are
the words from the
first four lines.
Crashing
Clashing
Splashing
Thrashing
Crashing, clashing sea
Swims a little splashing,
thrashing me.
Diamante - written in the shape of a
diamond.
Made up of 7 lines using a set
structure:
•
Line 1: Beginning subject
Line 2: Two describing words
about line 1
Line 3: Three doing words
about line 1
Line 4: A short phrase about
line 1, a short phrase about
line 7
Line 5: Three doing words
about line 7
Line 6: Two describing words
about line 7
Line 7: End subject
• Example
Bike
Shiny, quiet,
Pedaling, spinning, weaving
Whizzing round corners,
zooming along roads
Racing, roaring, speeding
Fast, loud,
Car
Kenning -
a two word phrase describing an object often using a
metaphor. A Kennings poem is a riddle made up of several lines of kennings to
describe something or someone.
My Sister
• A riddle made up of
several lines of
kennings to describe
something or
someone.
• Consists of several
stanzas of two
describing words. It
can be made up of
any number of
Kennings.
Dummy-sucker
Teddy-thrower
Anything-chewer
Kiss-giver
Slave-employer
Dolly-hugger
Calm-destroyer
Milk-drinker
Nappy-leaker
Peace-breaker
Scream-shrieker
Unlike any other
My sister
Pantoum -
a verse form consisting of three
stanzas. It has a set pattern within the poem of
Riverside
repetitive lines.
• The pattern in each stanza is
where the second and fourth line
of each verse is repeated as the
first and third of the next.
• The pattern changes though for
the last stanza to the first and
third line are the second and
fourth of the stanza above
(penultimate).
• The last line is a repeat of the
first starting line of the poem and
the third line of the first is the
second of the last.
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
As I walk by the riverside
Ripples disturb the water
Fish dart upstream
Fighting against the flow
(2)
(5)
(4)
(6)
Ripples disturb the water
Struggling to their destination
Fighting against the flow
In their underwater world
(5) Struggling to their destination
(3) Fish dart upstream
(6) Through the fields and vales and
valleys they glide
(1) As I walk by the riverside