1. Introduction to Poetry Types

3. Cool air, coats, and leaves falling
 Haiku is a Japanese poem composed of 3 unrhymed lines of 5,7,5 syllables.
Fall
Fall is relaxing
Cool air, coats, and leaves falling
Football, food and fun
Usually, a Haiku reflects on something about Nature.

4. Count the lines & syllables

6. The rhyme scheme will be AABBA
These are usually easy to recognize.
a short humorous poem consisting of 5 lines
Lines 1, 2, and 5 have 8 to 9 syllables and rhyme with one another.
Lines 3 and 4 have 5 to 6 syllables and rhyme with each other
Usually begins with…
There once was a
The rhyme scheme will be AABBA

7. Limerick O’Toole Humorous 5 lines There once was AABBA
There once was a boy named O’Toole
Who didn’t act smart when at school
He loved reading books
But he got dirty looks
So he stopped reading books like a fool.

9. V
Ert ical
Acrostic
has certain letters, usually the first in each line that form a message when read in a sentence.

10. Acrostic The Inspirer Idealistic, Needs to live life to the fullest,
Social and demands to
Prove to the word that if it
Interest them, they can do anything from any
Range of interests and ability.
Everyone has the choice to be inspired .

11. Lyric
Poetry
Lyric is a short poem of personal feelings and emotions, can be set to music.

12. Which lines are personal or emotional?
The day that I left Lucy A tear fell from her eye Now I don't have nobody, and I was such a fool On the day that I left Lucy. The day that I left Lucy she cried, then said goodbye Now it's done, and it's over, and I am all alone On the day that I left Lucy Now I don't have anymore songs to sing 'Cause you were everything, everything to me I didn't realize I felt this way, until that day Today I'm missing Lucy, and you say that she's OK, I hope she is. Now I don't have nobody and no one will ever replace... My Lucy I love Lucy, Lucy... On the day that I left Lucy...my Lucy
Lyric
Poetry
Lucy
Which lines are personal or emotional?

13. FREE VERSE
is poetry composed of rhymed and unrhymed lines that have no set patterns.
No Rules

14. FREE VERSE
Fog is the unknown
The unusual
The free

15. Famous for writing sonnets
Sonnet is a lyric poem that has 14 lines.
Famous for writing sonnets

16. Shape
Poem
The words can create the
shape or be written inside the shape.
Shape Poem is poetry in the shape or form of an object. This is a type of concrete poetry.