Our Poetry Book

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Our Poetry Book

• February, 2008

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Haiku

• A Japanese style poem consisting of three
  lines with a total of 17 syllables. The first
  line contains five syllables, the second contains
  seven and the last one contains five.

• Quadeem Chambers good
• But he got one F in math.
• So Quadeem works hard.
• By Quadeem

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Acrostic

• A type of poem in which all of the first
  letters in the vertical direction spell a word or
  concept.

• B beautiful girl
• E excellent
• Y young
• O outstanding person
• N naughty
• C courageous
• E enduring person
• By Denzel

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Limerick

• A humorous, nonsense verse that consists of a
  triplet and a couplet a five line poem. The
  rhyme scheme is usually AABBA.

• There was a girl name Kasse
• Her name rhymed with Lassie
• She got on a boat
• And heres what she wrote
• My name is not Sassy!
• By Kasse

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Elegy

• A poem or song of lament and praise for the
  dead.

• My grandpa Roy
• He was old,
• He was nice,
• Hed tell you stories.
• But the most important thing is
• We all loved him.
• By Austin

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Concrete poem

• The shape suggests the subject the poet
  arranges the lines to create a visual image.

• Stars
• Stars are pretty.
• I like looking
• at stars.
• Me and sister
• Always are out-
• side look
• at them
• By Bethany

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Couplets

• The simplest rhymed pattern it consists of
  two rhyming lines usually written with a
  humorous twist.

• Cat you betta gone fo I knock you out!
• You act like you dont know what Im talking
  about.
• By Dakota

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Cinquain

• A poem with 5 lines that follows a particular
  pattern. Our pattern
• Line 1 noun
• Line 2 two adjectives
• Line 3 - three words ending in ing
• Line 4 a phrase
• Line 5 a synonym for Line 1.

• E J
• tall, white
• eating, sitting, talking
• wears boots
• person
• By Scott

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Diamonte

• Also a pattern poem when completed, will have
  the shape of a diamond its purpose is to go from
  the subject at the top to another totally
  different subject.

• car
• small, ugly
• riding, passing, running
• beep, fumes, loud, honk
• riding, passing, running
• big, small
• truck
• By E. J.

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