Types of poems

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Types of poems
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Haiku

• Japanese style poetry about nature
• No rhyme
• First line has 5 syllables
• Second line has 7 syllables
• Last line has 5 syllables

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Examples

• Drooping green branches
• Weighted down with heavy snow
• Waiting for the spring.
• The hand of a leaf
• Waves to each passerby
• With carefree abandon.

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More examples

• Wise king of the night
• From his perch in the treetops
• Quietly watches.
• The wintry wind blows
• The blueness of its sharp breath
• Chilling the earths bones.

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Cinquain

• A 5 line poem
• First line is a noun or a subject of the poem
• The second line consists of 2 words that describe
  the first line
• The third line is 2 action words
• Line four is 4 words that give a feeling
• Line five is 1 word that refers back to the
  subject

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Pattern 1

• Line 1 2 syllables
• Line 2 4 syllables
• Line 3 6 syllables
• Line 4 8 syllables
• Line 5 2 syllables

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Example

• Listen
• With faint dry sound
• Like steps of passing ghosts,
• The leaves, frost-crispd, break from the trees
• And fall.

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Pattern 2

• Line 1 one word
• Line 2 two words
• Line 3 three words
• Line 4 four words
• Line 5 one word

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Example

• Mules
• Stubborn, unmoving
• Braying, kicking, resisting
• Not wanting to listen
• People

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Pattern 3

• Noun
• Two adjectives (describing words)
• Three words ending in ing
• A phrase
• Another word for the noun

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Example

• Clouds
• Fluffy cotton
• Billowing, gliding, creeping
• Soft pillows of rain
• Thunderheads

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Acrostics

• Starting in September
• Children gather to learn
• Hours of play and learning
• Open books and desks
• Outside fun for all
• Lasting knowledge.

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Samples

• Cunning Digs under the fence
• And Often licks my face
• Tricky Gets mud on my clothes
• T errific
• O rnery
• N eat
• Y oung
• A rtistic

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Butterfly

• Balancing on the wind Utterly graceful and free
  Totally aware of the currents Tightrope walking
  a delicate stem Every flower a beacon Reaching
  deep to the sweetness Flying on to the next one
  Leaving no sign of its visit Yellow pollen now
  carried along

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Your next task is to make an acrostic with the
name of a character in a book.

• GreedyOpens doors without knockingLooks in
  every roomDines on porridgeIdentifies objects
  as too hard, too soft, or just rightLies down
  for a napOpens her eyesCries out in
  frightKicks off the coversSlips out the window

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Diamante

• 7 lines
• Written about 2 contrasting subjects and makes a
  comparison between them
• Moves from one subject to the other

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Structure

• Line 1one noun that names subject 1
• Line 2two adjectives describing it
• Line 3three -ing words about subject 1
• Line 4four nouns, the first two about subject 1
  and the second two about subject two
• Line 5three ing words about subject 2
• Line 6two adjectives that describe subject 2
• Line 7one noun that names the second subject

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Example

• Egg
• Tiny, blue
• Rocking, cracking, exploding
• Nest, shell, beak, foot
• Squawking, gazing, shivering
• Wide-eyed, feathery
• Bird

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Limerick

• A 5 line poem
• Lines 1, 2, and 5 have 8-10 syllables
• Lines 3 and 4 have 5 syllables
• Rhyme scheme a, a, b, b, a
• Often names a place at the end of line 1

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Example 1

• There once was lady in Spain. a
• Who said she had nothing to gain. a
• She gave it a try, b
• And said she could fly, b
• But crashed when she flew in the rain. a

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Example 2

• There was an Old Man with a beard a
• Who said, It is just as I feared! a
• Two Owls and a Hen b
• Four Larks and a Wren, b
• Have all built their nests in my beard! a

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