Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

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Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what
you are! Up above the world so high, Like a
diamond in the sky. When the blazing sun is
gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show
your little light, Twinkle, twinkle, all the
night.
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What is Poetry?
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A poem is.

• a type of literature that describes ideas,
  feelings, or tells a story in a specific form

• is special because it is not written in
  sentences and paragraphs
• is written in lines and stanzas

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Lines and Stanza

• A line is one group of words that reads from left
  to right. It looks like one row in a poem.
• A stanza is a group of lines (like a paragraph in
  a book or story). It
• may also be called a verse.

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Sent To My Room I broke a dishand mom got
mad.She sent me to my roombecause she said that
I was bad.So I'm sitting hereon my canopewith
my stereoand my color tvand my favorite
dolland my 'lectric trainand my building
blocksand my video game,And I'm wondering
whatmy mother meantwhen she said my roomwas a
punishment.

• How many stanzas are in this poem?
• 10
• 4
• 5
• 1
• 2. How many lines are in each stanza?
• 5
• 1
• 7
• 4

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What is the purpose of poetry? Some poems make
us LAUGH.Some poems make us THINK. Some poems
are SHORT FUNNY.Some poems are LONG
SERIOUS. Some poems RHYME.Some poems DO NOT
RHYME.
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Characteristics of poems Tell stories Tell
jokes and puns Some have alliteration
some have
palindromes Some do not rhyme Sad or
happy Some do
rhyme different numbers of stanzas and
lines short or long
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jokes
use stanzas and lines
puns
show many different emotions happy, sad,
excited, mad, etc.
alliteration
Characteristics of a Poem
some rhyme
palindromes
rhythm
some do not rhyme
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Poem that tells a story I dreamed a dream in
bed last night,Of places most bizarre.Of ponds
of liquid lemon pie,And ducks that played
guitar.Of perfect picture puzzle paths,And
grass of jellybeans.Of crumpet homes and candy
gnomes,Such things I'd never seen.
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Poetry that is serious
Hope is the thing... Hope is the thing with
feathers That perches in the soul, And sings
the tune without the words, And never stops at
all, And sweetest in the gale is heard And
sore must be the storm That could abash the
little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard
it in the chilliest land, And on the strangest
sea Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb
of me. - Emily Dickinson
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Poem that make us laugh
Pete the Sweet BeeThere was a beenamed Sweetie
Pete.His hair was slickhe smelled so
sweet.He'd take a batheach day at home.Then
comb his hairwith honeycomb.
Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie,Kissed the girls
and made them cry.His bad breath drove all the
girls away.Now he gargles twice a day.
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Puns in Poetry

• Puns are a play on words.
• They can be words that sound the same but have
  different spelling.
• They can also be exaggerations and make the poem
  funny.

The Hungry Little Giant"I'm hungry! I could
swallow Wales!"the little giant cried."Tonight
we're having Chile, dear,"the giant's mother
sighed."Can I please have Samoa, Mom?"the
little giant asked her."Just don't forget
dessert," she said."We're having Baked
Alaska.""Tomorrow we'll eat Turkey,there is
truly nothing finer.We'll cook it in the oven
andwe'll serve it up on China."
Night, night, Knight, said one Knight to the
other knight the other night. Night, night,
Knight.
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• Alliteration in poems
• In alliteration, beginning words start with the
  same consonant or vowel sounds in stressed
  syllables.
• The words are close together.

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Example of Alliteration in poetry Betty
Botter Betty Botter bought some butter."But,"
she said,"the butter's bitter.If I put it in my
batter,it will make my batter bitter.But a bit
of better butter--that would make my batter
better. So she bought a bit of butter,better
than her bitter butter.And she put it in her
batter,and the batter was not bitter.So 'twas
better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter!
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Alliteration continued.

• Sheila Shorter sought a suitor
• Shelia sought a suitor short.
• Sheilas suitor sure to suit her
• Shorts the suitor Sheila sought!
• by Michael Rosen

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Palindromes in poetry
 A palindrome is a word or phrase which reads the
same in both directions. Some simple examples
are
DEED LEVEL PIP
ROTOR CIVIC POP MADAM
EYE NUN RADAR TOOT
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Poem with Palindromes
King, are you glad you are king?1Fall leaves
after leaves fall.2Says Mom, "What do you do?"
You do what Mom says.3You know, I did little for
you, for little did I know you.4First Ladies
rule the State, and state the rule "ladies
first."5Please me by standing by me
please.6Blessed are they that believe they are
blessed.7Escher, drawing hands, drew hands
drawing Escher.8You can cage a swallow, can't
you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you?9Did
I say you never say "never say never"? You say I
did.10
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• Rhythm and Rhyme
• Rhythm can be created by meter, rhyme, and
  alliteration.
• Rhythm is the pattern of beats in the syllables
  of the words.
• Rhyme is when two words sound the same at the
  end.

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Spaghetti! Spaghetti Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Youre wonderful stuff, I love you,
spaghetti, I cant get enough. Youre
covered with sauce And youre sprinkled with
cheese, Spaghetti! Spaghetti! Oh, give me some
please. Jack Prelutsky
What makes this poem rhyme? Is there rhythm? How
do you know?
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Meter

• Meter is when the syllables of the words or
  lines are arranged in a repeating pattern.

• When poets write in meter, they count out the
  number of stressed (strong) syllables and
  unstressed (weak) syllables for each line. They
  repeat the pattern throughout the poem.
• The number of syllables in each line of a stanza
  can determine the meter.

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Lets look at Meter in this poem
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what
you are! Up above the world so high, Like a
diamond in the sky. When the blazing sun is
gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show
your little light, Twinkle, twinkle, all the
night.
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I think my dad is Dracula.I know that sounds
insane,but listen for a moment andallow me to
explain.We don't live in a castle,and we never
sleep in caves.But, still, there's something
weirdabout the way my dad behaves.
Rhyme?____ Alliteration?____ Puns?
____ Palindromes?_____ How many stanzas?
____ How many lines in each stanza? ______
I never see him go outin the daytime when it's
light.He sleeps all day till evening,then he
leaves the house at night.
He comes home in the morningsaying, "Man, I'm
really dead!"He kisses us goodnight, and thenby
sunrise he's in bed. My mom heard my
suspicionand she said, "You're not too
swift.Your father's not a vampire.He just works
the graveyard shift."