1. Learning about the use and special features of poetry.
What are the Different Elements Between Poems with Rhythm, Rhyme, and Alliteration?
Learning about the use and special features of poetry.

2. Overview Of The Lesson
You will be taught the form and use of and special features of poetry.
You will be provided with many examples.
You will then be tested to see how well you can read and identify these different kinds of poetry.

3. Poetry Form Poems are made up of lines, which they call stanza.
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you– Nobody—Too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! They’d advertise—
you know!

4. THREE ELEMENTS
Line Length
Punctuation
Sentence Structure

5. LINE LENGTH
Poets sometimes put lines in different lengths to show emotion.
Long lines show drama, energy, or force
Short lines sometimes show calmness, or quiet.

6. PUNCUATION
You see a lot of poems that don’t use traditional punctuation, like capitals, or periods.
This is done usually to express the emotion of the poet.
Shadows on the wall
Noises down the hall
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Bad dogs barking loud
Big ghosts in a cloud
Life doesn’t frighten me at all.

7. SENTENCE STRUCTURE
Poets form their sentences a particular way to emphasize a certain part.
Look at this one….
I heard a lonely sound in the night
In the night, I heard a lonely sound

8. SOUND
The sound of a poem helps to express the meaning and emotions of it.
The sound of poetry comes in three ways
Rhyme
Rhythm
Alliteration

9. What is a Rhyming Poem?
A rhyming poem is a verse poem that contains rhyming words at the end of certain lines.
Example: Night time by Lee Bennet Hopkins
How do dreams know
when to creep
into my head
when I fall off
to Sleep?

10. Types of Rhyming Poems
There are many types of rhyming poems. Here are names of some of them.
The Couplet
The Limerick
The Ballad Stanza (including the short and long)
Octaves

11. An Example of a Limerick
What is a limerick, Mother?
It's a form of verse, said brother
In which lines one and two
Rhyme with five when it's through
And three and four rhyme with each other.
author unknown

12. The Purpose of Rhyming Poems
Rhyming poems are used mainly for humor. These poems are fun to read.
Lets see some more poems with rhymes.

13. A Rhyming Poem Marty Smarty went to a party In her jumbo jet.
After tea she jumped in the sea
And got her pants all wet.
John Foster

14. More Rhymes Spaghetti! Spaghetti Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
You’re wonderful stuff,
I love you, spaghetti,
I can’t get enough.
You’re covered with sauce
And you’re sprinkled with cheese,
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Oh, give me some please.
Jack Prelutsky

15. What is Alliteration?
A poem with alliteration repeats the initial consonant sounds closely together.
Example: Sheila Shorter sought a suitor;
Shelia sought a suitor short.
Sheila’s suitor sure to suit her;
Short’s the suitor Sheila sought!
by Michael Rosen

16. The Purpose of Alliteration Poems
Alliteration poems tend to be tongue twisters. They are written for the fun they bring when they are read.
Lets see more poems with alliteration.

17. An Alliteration Poem Down the slippery slide they slid
Sitting slightly sideways;
Slipping swiftly see them skid
On holidays and Fridays.

18. Another Alliteration Poem
A fly and a flea flew up in a flue.
Said the fly to the flea, “What shall we do?”
“Let’s fly,” said the flea.
“Let’s flee,” said the fly.
So they fluttered and flew up a flaw in the flue.

19. More Tongue Twisters “Night, night, Knight”, said one Knight
to the other knight the other night.
“Night, night, Knight.”

20. Super Tongue Twister!
Esau Wood sawed wood. Esau Wood would saw wood. Oh, the wood that Wood would saw! One day Esau Wood saw a saw saw wood as no other woodsaw Wood ever saw would saw wood. Of all the woodsaws Wood ever saw saw wood, Wood never saw a woodsaw that would saw wood like the woodsaw Wood saw would saw wood. Now Esau Wood saws with that saw he saw saw wood.

21. What is Rhythm? Any poem has the chance of having rhythm.
A poem has rhythm if the reader of the poem gives the poem rhythm.
For a poem to have rhythm, it has to be read following a pattern with its syllables. For example:
da, da, dadada da da, da, da, dadada da da,
da, da, dadada da da, da, da, dadada da da.

22. Example of Rhythm Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
and of all the king’s horses and all of the
King’s men
couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together
again.

23. Practice Your Rhythm Clankity Clankity Clankity Clank!
Ankylosaurus was built like a tank,
Its hide was a fortress as sturdy as steel,
It tended to be an inedible meal.
It was armored in front, it was armored behind,
There wasn’t a thing on its minuscule mind,
It waddled about on its four stubby legs,
Nibbling on plants with a mouthful of pegs.
Ankylosaurus was best left alone,
Its tail was a cudgel of gristle and bone,
Ankylosaurus was built like a tank.
By: Jack Prelutsky

24. More Rhythm Practice Iguanodon, Iguanodon, Whatever made you fade,
You’ve traveled on, Iguanodon,
We wish you could have stayed.
We’ve sought you everywhere,
Both here and yon, Iguanodon,
But failed to find you there.
You were a gentle kind,
But now you’re gone, Iguanodon,
And left your bones behind. By: Jack Prelutsky

25. Time For Review! What are the three forms of a poem?
What is a rhyme? Give me an example.
What is rhythm? Give me an example.
What is alliteration? Give me an example.