1. Forms of Poetry

2. The Haiku From the Japanese culture
Combines form, content, and language
Themes often focus on nature, feelings or experiences

3. The Haiku
Structure consists of 3 lines, with 5 syllables in the first and third line and 7 syllables in the second line
Haikus do not rhyme
The challenge in a haiku is to paint an image in the reader’s mind with only 17 syllables

4. The Haiku An old silent pond… A frog jumps into the pond,
Splash! Silence again.
By Basho

5. The Haiku Over the wintry Forest, winds howl in rage
With no leaves to blow.
By Soseki

6. The Limerick A five line poem named after an Irish town
Limericks are meant to be funny, with the last line containing the punch line or heart of the joke
Rhythm is especially important in a limerick

7. The Limerick The limerick has a rhyme scheme of AABBA
The first, second, and fifth lines all rhyme and must contain 3 beats
The third and fourth lines rhyme and must contain 2 beats

8. The Limerick 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

9. The Limerick There once was a pauper named Meg
Who accidentally broke her leg
She slipped on the ice
Not one, but thrice
Take no pity on her, I beg

10. The Villanelle Poetry with a complicated structure
Utilizes rhyme and repetition to create rhythm and build meaning.
19 line poem made up of five tercets (3 line stanzas) and a final quatrain (4 line stanza)

11. The Villanelle
The villanelle has a complicated rhyme scheme that incorporates repeated lines throughout the poem
A1BA2 ABA1 ABA2 ABA1 ABA2 ABA1A2
A1 and A2 are lines that are repeated exactly in various parts of the play and that rhyme with the other A lines

12. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,

13. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
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,
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.