1. Lyric Narrative Dramatic
Genres of Poetry
Lyric
Narrative
Dramatic
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2. Types of Poems Acrostic Ballad Biopoem Cinquain Concrete Couplet
Diamante
Didactic
Elegy
Epic
Free verse
Haiku
Limerick
Lyric
Narrative
Ode
Parody
Sonnet
Quatrains
Tanka
I WISH…
I USED TO … BUT NOW…

3. How many types of poems have you counted?

4. The theme is spelled out by the first letter in each line
Acrostic Poem
The theme is spelled out by the first letter in each line
Example

5. Ballad
Tells a story
Usually written in four line stanzas called quatrains
Example

6. Cinquain Five lines: First line – one noun
Second line – two adjectives separated by comma that describe the noun
Third line – three verbs separated by comma telling what the noun on the first line does
Fourth line – write a thought in a short phrase about the noun
Fifth line – repeat a noun used on first line or write a synonym or some related word
Example

7. A poem shaped to look like the subject
Concrete Poem
A poem shaped to look like the subject
Example

8. Two lines of verse that usually rhyme and state one complete idea
Couplet
Two lines of verse that usually rhyme and state one complete idea
Example

9. Diamante Seven lines First line – one noun
Second line – two adjectives separated by comma that describe the noun
Third line – three participles
Fourth line – four nouns related to the subject (the third and fourth nouns may have opposite meaning from the first two)
Fifth line – three participles indicating change or development of the subject
Sixth line – two adjectives carrying on the idea of change or development
Seventh line – noun – MUST be the opposite of the noun in the first line
Example

10. Didactic Poem
Any verse to teach a specific, academic lesson
Example

11. Epic Poem A long story poem describing the adventures of a hero
Example

12. Free Verse
Poetry written in either rhyme or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern.
Example

13. Haiku Originated in Japan Presents a picture of nature (original ones)
Has three unrhymed lines
First and third line are five syllables
Second line is seven syllables
Example

14. Limerick A humorous verse of five lines.
Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme and have three stressed syllables
Lines 3 and 4 rhyme and have two stressed syllables
Example

15. Lyric Poem
A short poem that expresses personal feelings
Example

16. Parody
A poem which is based on a well-known poem so that a mimic of its rhythm, rhyme scheme, or verses are immediately recognized
Example

17. Sonnet
A fourteen line poem which states the poet’s personal feelings; each line is ten syllables in length
Example

18. Quatrain A four line stanza or poem
Common rhyme schemes are aabb, abab, or abcd
Example

19. Example of an Acrostic Poem
Christ was born on Christmas Day.
Holidays are special.
Reindeer tow Santa's sled.
Icicles hang off my roof.
Snow comes in December.
Trees are decorated for Christmas.
Mummers go singing Christmas carols.
Angels are in the Christmas play.
Santa drinks a lot of fanta.

20. Example of a Ballad Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall
"Mother dear, may I go downtown        Instead of out to play, And march the streets of Birmingham In a Freedom March today?" "No, baby, no, you may not go, For the dogs are fierce and wild, And clubs and hoses, guns and jails Aren't good for a little child." "But, mother, I won't be alone. Other children will go with me, And march the streets of Birmingham To make our country free."
"No baby, no, you may not go For I fear those guns will fire. But you may go to church instead And sing in the children's choir." She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair, And bathed rose petal sweet, And drawn white gloves on her small brown hands, And white shoes on her feet.
The mother smiled to know that her child Was in the sacred place, But that smile was the last smile To come upon her face. For when she heard the explosion, Her eyes grew wet and wild. She raced through the streets of Birmingham Calling for her child. She clawed through bits of glass and brick, Then lifted out a shoe. "O, here's the shoe my baby wore, But, baby, where are you?"

21. Example of a Cinquain puppy ornery, naughty growling, jumping, chewing
a playful bundle of trouble
Boxer
penguin
black, white
waddling, swimming, leaping
a tuxedo in the cold water
emperor

22. Example of a Concrete Poem
Dove

23. Example of a Couplet
by Shel Silverstein
"I cannot go to school today." Said little Peggy Ann McKay.

24. Example of Diamante Seasons
Winter Rainy, cold Skiing, skating, sledding Mountains, wind, breeze, ocean Swimming, surfing, scuba diving Sunny, hot Summer

25. Example of a Didactic Poem
Wind: Learn Adjectives (Haiku) by Christopher Rudolph * Bold words are adjectives. Wisping, wistful wind (5 syllables) Warm, rising, ethereal (7 syllables) Evanescent coo (5 syllables)

26. Example of an Epic Poem
Hiawatha's Departure from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.
Full version of the poem

27. Example of a Free Verse Fog by Carl Sandburg
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

28. Example of a Haiku The Rose The red blossom bends
by Donna Brock
The red blossom bends
and drips its dew to the ground.
Like a tear it falls.

29. Example of a Limerick Limerick by Edward Lear
There was an Old Man in a boat, Who said, 'I'm afloat, I'm afloat!' When they said, 'No! you ain't!' He was ready to faint, That unhappy Old Man in a boat.

30. Example of a Lyric Poem Dying by Emily Dickinson
I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm. The eyes beside had wrung them dry, And breaths were gathering sure For that last onset, when the king Be witnessed in his power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me; And then the windows failed, and then I could not see to see.

31. Example of a Parody by Penman
  A School Day
by Penman
Once upon a schoolday rotten Came some bullies and they were plot'n To mop my head across the bathroom floor A mop mop mopping across the bathroom floor Only this and nothing more
When all of a sudden there came a rapping A tap tap tapping on the bathroom door Only my head and nothing more
I started to scream to show my displeasure but they wanted to open my head like some kind of treasure and spill the contents across the bathroom floor. Only this and nothing more
Oh won't these bullies please let me be I promise I'll give them all of my money and after they wiped me across the bathroom floor they took this and nothing more.
So they just quit the beating right out of the blue I guess it was because school's out it's five after two but they dismissed it as if they were now bored only this and nothing more

32. Example of a Sonnet
SONNET 116
by Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Explanation of
the Sonnet

33. Paraphrase of the Sonnet 116
Let me not declare any reasons why two
True-minded people should not be married. Love is not love
Which changes when it finds a change in circumstances,
Or bends from its firm stand even when a lover is unfaithful:
Oh no! it is a lighthouse
That sees storms but is never shaken;
Love is the guiding north star to every lost ship,
Whose value cannot be calculated, although its altitude can be measured.
Love is not at the mercy of Time, though physical beauty
Comes within the compass of his sickle.
Love does not alter with hours and weeks,
But, rather, it endures until the last day of life.
If I am proved wrong about these thoughts on love
Then I recant all that I have written, and no man has ever [truly] loved.

34. Example of a Quatrain The Mountain by Donna Brock
The mountain frames the sky (a)
As a shadow of an eagle flies by. (a)
With clouds hanging at its edge (b)
A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge. (b)

35. Question # 1: What common feature do couplet, limerick, haiku, sonnet, and quatrain poems have?

36. Question #2: Which types of poems could be classified as narrative poetry?

37. Question #3: What type of poem would you write to make your friends laugh?

38. Question #4 What poem would be most appropriate for your Valentine?

39. Question #5? What is the difference between free verse poetry and writing non-poetry?