1. Couplet two lines rhymed can be simple or sophisticated
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend
All losses are restored and sorrows end
-William Shakespeare

2. Couplet The world is so full of a number of things
I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings
-Robert Louis Stevenson
I started the race with the rest of the pack
Though my lungs are on fire, I won’t turn back
-G. Lipson

3. Writing Poetry

4. Couplet Write a second line for these beginning lines:
I cannot stand the color red
My brother Bob can really bake
Don’t be sad on this fine day
Make up your own couplets

5. Quatrain 4 lines has several different possible rhyme schemes: a-a-a-a
a-a-b-b
a-b-a-b
a-b-c-d

6. I had a very nasty scheme I dreamed it in a wicked dream
Quatrain
I had a very nasty scheme
I dreamed it in a wicked dream
To point my trust beam
And turn the villains all to steam a a b b

7. I smell the blood of an Englishman Be he alive, or be he dead
Quatrain a
Fee, fi, fo, fum
I smell the blood of an Englishman
Be he alive, or be he dead
I’ll grind his bones to make my bread a b b

8. cinquain 5 lines Unrhymed Line 1: 1 word topic
Line 2: 2 adjectives for topic
Line 3: 3 action (-ing) words
Line 4: 4 word phrase about topic
Line 5: synonym for line 1

9. cinquain Rain Heavy, awesome Drenching, soaking, penetrating
Renewing the earth’s firmament
Soil-soaker
Spaghetti
Messy, spicy
Slurping, sliding, falling
Between plate and mouth
Delicious

10. Is wasn’t easy when my pet died When Miss Piggy is around
Quatrain
Pick a starting line for your own quatrain, then pick a rhyme scheme:
A friend is someone who
Is wasn’t easy when my pet died
When Miss Piggy is around
He hit the ball so very high
The runner sped around the track
Into the sunset we will sail

11. cinquain Pick a topic for your cinquain: Love Music An animal School
Friends
A sport

12. Limerick Five line poem Usually humorous or silly
Made popular by Edward Lear
Rhyme scheme: a a b
Lines 1,2,5 have 3 beats
Lines 3 and 4 have 2 beats

13. a a b b a Old Man with a Beard There was on Old Man with a beard
Limerick
Old Man with a Beard
There was on Old Man with a beard
Who said, “It is just as I feared!
Two owls and a hen
Four larks and wren,
Have all built their nest in my beard!” a a b b a

14. a a b b a There once was a Young Lady whose Nose
Limerick
There once was a Young Lady whose Nose
Continually prospers and grows
When it grew out of sight
She exclaimed in a fright
“Oh! Farewell to the end of my Nose!” a a b b a

15. Pick a starting line for your own limerick:
There once was an athlete named Sam
Some trees grow sideways, I’m told
There once was a mountain too high

16. Haiku ancient Japanese poetry usually about nature doesn’t rhyme
usually illustrated
Line 1 – 5 syllables
Line 2 – 7 syllables
Line 3 – 5 syllables

17. Haiku An old silent pond A frog jumps into the pond
Splash, silence again
-Basho
Into the darkest woods
A weeping willow tree cries
Who made such sadness?
-G. Lispon

18. Imagine a place in nature. Create a haiku describing it.
Pick a season.
Imagine a place in nature.
Create a haiku describing it.

19. uses two opposite words named after a diamond because of its shape
Diamante
uses two opposite words
named after a diamond because of its shape
7 lines
doesn’t rhyme

20. Line 1: Topic
Line 2: 2 adjectives for line 1
Line 3: 3 action (ing) words for line 1
Line 4: 2 nouns for line nouns for line 7
Line 5: 3 action (ing) words for line 7
Line 6: 2 adjectives for line 7
Line 7: Antonym for line 1

21. Has no strict patterns or rhyme scheme Can be serious or humorous
Free Verse
Has no strict patterns or rhyme scheme
Can be serious or humorous

22. Embracing, hugging, laughing Parents, relatives – Strangers, enemies
Love
Warm, wonderful
Embracing, hugging, laughing
Parents, relatives – Strangers, enemies
Neglected, frightened, trembling
Cold, bitter
Hate

23. Free Verse The Dream Keeper Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamers,
Heart melodies,
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world
-Langston Hughes

24. Topics city/country clean/dirty pleasure/pain truth/lies old/young
Pick two opposite words to write a diamante about:
city/country
clean/dirty
pleasure/pain
truth/lies
old/young
weak/strong
ice/water

25. Free Verse
Topic ______________
See
Hear
Smell
Feel
Taste

26. Free Verse
Poetic Devices
Device
Example

27. Concrete Poetry
Poetry that visually conveys the poet's meaning through the graphic arrangement of letters, words, or symbols on the page.

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32. Concrete Poetry

33. Write a poem about it (at least 6 lines) Turn it into a concrete poem
Concrete Poetry
Pick a topic
Write a poem about it (at least 6 lines)
Turn it into a concrete poem