Types of Poetry Middle School ELAR Aligned to Common Core State Standards

1. Types of Poetry Middle School ELAR Aligned to Common Core State Standards

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3. Epic Poetry • A long narrative poem that tells an exciting or inspirational story about a hero and their heroic deeds. • Uses formal language. • Doesn’t usually rhyme or have a regular rhythm. • “Well do I know that the day will surely come when mighty • Ilius shall be destroyed with Priam and Priam’s people, but I grieve for • none of these—not even for Hecuba, nor King Priam, nor for my • brothers many and brave who may fall in the dust before their foes— • for none of these do I grieve as for yourself when the day shall come • on which some one of the Achaeans shall rob you forever of your • freedom, and bear you weeping away.” • The Iliad, by Homer, 750-700 BC

4. Shakespearean Sonnet • 14 lines that followed a ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme. • Each line contains ten syllables and is written in iambic pentameter. • Usually serious and written about love. • Has a change in attitude or subject in the third quatrain. • Sonnet 18 – William Shakespeare • Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date:Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou growest:So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

5. Haiku • Japanese poetry. • 3 lines that follow a 5, 7, 5 syllable structure. • Usually more serious, about nature. • Tree leaves change and fall • Short days grow dark and dreary • A chill in the air

6. American Cinquain • 5 lines that follow a 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 syllable structure. • Usually about nature. • Crisp air. • Snatches your breath. • Awakens your senses. • Has you longing for times long gone. • Warm days.

7. Create your own. With a partner, create a haiku and an American cinquain.

8. Create your own. With a partner, create a haiku and an American cinquain. Answers will vary.

9. A Shakespearean sonnet has what kind of rhyme scheme? • ABAB CDCD EFEF GG • ABBA ABBA CDCD CD • ABAB BCBC CDCD EE • AABB CCDD EEFF GG

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