1. Types of Poems

2. A 7 lined poem that is diamond in shape
Diamante
A 7 lined poem that is diamond in shape
Line 1: Noun or subject
Line 2: Two Adjectives describing the first noun/subect
Line 3: Three -ing words describing the first noun/subect
Line 4: Four words: two about the first noun/subect, two about the antonym/synonym
Line 5: Three -ing words about the antonym/synonym
Line 6: Two adjectives describing the antonym/synonym
Line 7: Antonym/synonym for the subject

3. Diamante cont.
Rain humid, damp refreshing, dripping, splattering wet, slippery, cold, slushy sliding, melting, freezing frigid, icy Snow

4. Limerick A humorous poem consisting of five lines. Rhyme scheme: AABBA
The 1st , 2nd, and 5thlines must have 7 to 10 syllables while rhyming and having the same verbal rhythm.
The 3rd and 4th lines only have to have 5 to 7syllables, and have to rhyme with each other and have the same rhythm.

5. Famous Limerick
The limerick packs laughs anatomical Into space that is quite economical. But the good ones I've seen So seldom are clean And the clean ones so seldom are comical

6. Haiku
Haiku is an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all. Haiku is usually written in the present tense and focuses on nature. i.e. warm soup in a bowl letters of the alphabet hang on the teaspoon

7. Cinquain
Cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines
Line 1: Noun
Line 2: Description of Noun
Line 3: Action
Line 4: Feeling or Effect
Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun

8. Cinquain cont.
Spaghetti Messy, spicy Slurping, sliding, falling Between my plate and mouth Delicious

9. Sonnet
A Sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter with a particular rhyming scheme:
Examples of a rhyming scheme:
#1) abab cdcd efef gg
#2) abba cddc effe gg
#3) abba abba cdcd cd

10. Elizabeth Barrett Browning How Do I Love Thee? Sonnett #43
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How Do I Love Thee? Sonnett #43

11. Epitaph
An epitaph is a brief poem inscribed on a tombstone praising a deceased person, usually with rhyming lines.
What happened to me, was not good, Hit by a car, bounced off the hood, Would get up, if only I could, Now here I lay, where once I stood

12. Epitaph Cont.
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake Stepped on the gas Instead of the brake. Memory of an accident in a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery Here lies an Atheist All dressed up And no place to go. In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery

13. Acrostic
Acrostic Poetry is where the first letter of each line spells a word, usually using the same words as in the title.
Devoted,  On  Guard.

14. Shape Poetry
Poetry can take on many formats, but one of the most inventive forms is for the poem to take on the shape of its subject. Therefore, if the subject of your poem were of a flower, then the poem would be shaped like a flower. If it were of a fish, then the poem would take on the shape of a fish

16. Free Verse
Free Verse is an irregular form of poetry in which the content free of traditional rules of versification, (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme). In moving from line to line, the poet's main consideration is where to insert line breaks. Some ways of doing this include breaking the line where there is a natural pause or at a point of suspense for the reader.

17. “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens

18. Your Turn
Using as many words from your word sort as possible, work collaboratively with your partner to create your own poem using one of the styles mentioned.