Poetry

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Poetry
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Poetry

• Special Kind Of Writing
• Makes you see and feel more than other types of
  writing
  
• Might make you laugh
• Might make you cry
• Might send shivers down your spine

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Types of Poetry

• Nursery Rhymes
• Mother Goose most famous
• Dont know if she was real or not
• Based on Oral folk songs
• First Mother Goose book published in America was
  1786

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Types of Poems

• Nonsense Poems
• Little or no meaning at all
• Sometimes even the words dont make sense
• Humorous Poems
• Like Nonsense Poems, but events could possibly
  happen
  

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Types Of Poems

• Limerick
• Nonsense Verse
• 5 lines
• 1st and 2nd lines rhyme
• 3rd and 4th lines rhyme
• 5th lines rhymes with 1st and 2nd lines

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Types of Poems

• Free Verse
• Does not always rhyme
• May not notice anything special about it
• Often understand it better when you see it
  written down
  
• Narrative
• Poem is like a short story