1. Poetry is a way to put your feelings or expression into words.
Poetry Workshop
Poetry is a way to put your feelings or expression into words.

2. Poems can be...
Free Verse
Rhyming

3. Free Verse Poems... Do not rhyme Do not have a pattern
Do not have a rhythm
Do not have a structure

4. Rhyming Poems... Rhyme May have a pattern Has a rhythm
May have a structure

5. Poetry Toolbox
Words
Rhythm
Punctuation
Stanzas
Refrain

6. Words Choose the absolute best words for your poem.
Use a thesaurus to replace dead words.
Think of your five senses; touch, taste, sight, hearing, and smell.

7. Rhythm
Poems with rhythm usually contain rhyming words at the ends of lines
Specific syllables are stressed
The rhyming follows a pattern
Rhyming dictionaries are helpful to create rhythm

8. Punctuation Is used to show the reader how to read the poem
May not have any punctuation
May have commas, periods, question marks, and exclamation points
Needs to be consistent

9. Stanzas A divided section with a group of lines
A format chosen by the poet
May include a rhyming pattern

10. Refrain Repetitive line found throughout the poem
Is usually found in the same place in each stanza
Similar to the chorus in a song

11. Since Hanna Moved Away The tires on my bike are flat…
The sky is grouchy gray.
At least it sure feels like that
Since Hanna moved away.
Chocolate ice cream tastes like prunes.
December’s come to stay.
They’ve taken back the Mays and Junes
Since Hanna moved away
Flowers smell like halibut.
Velvet feels like hay.
Every handsome dog’s a mutt
Since Hanna moved away.
Nothing’s fun to laugh about.
Nothing’s fun to play.
They call me, but I won’t come out
Judith Viorst

12. Try one of these possible refrains
On my way to school today
I think I’ll stay in bed
And that was that
If you ask me
Why does it have to be me?
I laughed and giggled all day