Poetry Forms

1. Poetry Forms Instructions and Examples of Different Forms of Poetry

2. Vocabulary for Index of Figurative Language • Alliteration • Assonance • Consonance • End Rhyme • Hyperbole • Idiom • Imagery • Internal Rhyme • Metaphor • Onomatopoeia • Personification • Repetition • Rhyme Scheme • Simile

3. How to write a Diamonte Poem line 1 - one noun (subject #1)line 2 - two adjectives (describing subject #1)line 3 - three participles (end in-ing, tell about subject #1)line 4 - four nouns (first two relate to subject #1, second two relate to subject #2)line 5 - three participles (end in -ing, tell about subject #2)line 6 - two adjectives (describing subject #2)line 7 - one noun (subject #2)

4. Diamonte PoemsSynonym PoemMonstersCreepy, sinisterHiding, lurking, stalkingVampires, werewolves, mummies, and zombiesChasing, Pouncing, EatingHungry, scaryCreatures

5. Diamonte PoemsAntonym PoemDayBright, sunnyLaughing, playing, doingUp in the east, down in the westTalking, Resting, SleepingQuiet, darkNight

6. Concrete Poems

7. Concrete Poems

8. Cinquain Poem Cinquains are five lines long. They have 2 syllables in the first line, 4 in the second, 6 in the third, 8 in the fourth line, and just 2 in the last line. Cinquains do not need to rhyme, but you can include rhymes if you want to.

9. Cinquain Poems • Ice cream.Cold and yummy.I love its sweet richnessas it finds its way into mytummy. • My roomis such a mess.Toys all over the place.Mom says, “Clean up!” But I like itlike this.

10. Clerihews Clerihews have just a few simple rules: They are four lines long. The first and second lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other. The first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person. A clerihew should be funny.

11. Clerihews • N'Sync Stink. Their music hurts my ears. I much prefer Britney Spears • The enemy of Harry Potter Was a scheming plotter. I can't tell you what he's called; I'd be ashamed To name "he who must not be named."

12. Limerick • Limericks are short, funny poems that follow a particular pattern. • Five lines with an A A B B A rhyme scheme • The meter is rhythmic with the first, second, and fifth lines having three feet (simplest definition: beats or stressed syllables) and the third and fourth lines having 2 feet. • One of the most famous and prolific authors of limericks is Edward Lear.

13. Limericks by Edward Lear • There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said, 'It is just as I feared!Two Owls and a Hen,Four Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!‘ • There was a Young Lady whose eyes,Were unique as to colour and size;When she opened them wide,People all turned aside,And started away in surprise.

14. Haikus • Haikus are poems with three lines • The first line has FIVE syllables • The second line has SEVEN syllables • The third line has FIVE syllables • There is no rhyme scheme • They are frequently about nature

15. Examples of Haikus Two Cherokee wolves You decide which one to feed Choose good or evil Haikus are easy But sometimes they don’t make sense Refridgerator

16. Villanelles • The villanelle is a highly structured poem consisting of nineteen lines. • Five tercets (stanzas of three lines) followed by a quatrain (stanza of four lines) • The first and third line of the opening tercet are repeated alternately as the last lines in the following stanzas. • These two lines also serve as the last two lines in the poem. • The rhyme scheme is ABA ABAABAABAABA ABAA • One of the most famous villanelles is Dylan Thomas’s “Do No Go Gentle into that Good Night”

17. “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas • Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. • Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning theyDo not go gentle into that good night. • Good men, the last wave by, crying how brightTheir frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. • Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. • Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sightBlind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. • And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

18. Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath • "I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) • The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. • I dreamed that you bewitched me And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.) • God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade: Exit seraphim and Satan's men: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. • I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.) • I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)"

19. Sonnets • There are many different types of sonnets. The simplest may be the English style. It includes the following characteristics: • They usually examine two contrastive elements • Fourteen lines • Each line has 10 syllables • The rhyme scheme is A B A B C D C D E F E F G G The couplet at the end is frequently a twist or surprise.

20. Sonnets: Shakespeare’s 18th 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 dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

21. Sonnets: “Learning to Write a Sonnet” by Denise Rogers • The sonnet form is old and full of dustAnd yet I want to learn to write one well.To learn new forms and grow is quite a must,But I will learn it quickly, I can tell. • And so I sit, today, with pen in hand,Composing three new quatrains with a rhyme.The rhythm flows like wind at my command.The A-B-A-B form consumes my time. • But I’m not done until there’s fourteen lines.One ending couplet, after three quatrains.I’ve tried to write this new form several times.The effort’s huge; I have to rack my brain. • But I persist, my fourteen lines now done.I wrote my poem; my sonnet work is won.

23. Metaphor Poems • Metaphor Poems can consist of several metaphors throughout the poem. • A Metaphor Poem can also consist of one ling extended metaphor that is built on throughout the poem. • There is no specific rhyme scheme or other organizational requirement. • “Concrete Mixers” on page 675 of the Red Lit Book is full of metaphor.

24. Mother to Son by Langston Hughes ( an example of an extended metaphor) • Well, son, I'll tell you:Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.It's had tacks in it,And splinters,And boards torn up,And places with no carpet on the floor --Bare.But all the timeI'se been a-climbin' on,And reachin' landin's,And turnin' corners,And sometimes goin' in the darkWhere there ain't been no light.So boy, don't you turn back.Don't you set down on the steps'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.Don't you fall now --For I'se still goin', honey,I'se still climbin',And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

25. Ode • An ode is a song of praise. There are various formats an ode can take. • Many formal odes are rather long and follow a standard format of five stanzas of 10 lines each. Each stanza follows an ABABCDECDE rhyme scheme. • Some modern “odes” are much shorter and do not follow a specific structure. They are called “odes” because they are written in praise of an object or an animal or a people.

26. Ode to the people who were forgotten(a modern ode by Mizz Midnight Fire) They were once loved and cared forOde to their livesEveryday they hurtWhile in desperation for loveand generosity.Ode to their heartThat was torn apart viciouslyWith little considerationOf their inner feelingsOde to their memoriesThat bring back happinessOr to the onesThat are very vague.Ode to those who have triedThose who haven't given upThe ones that will keep climbinFor them life hasn't been easy.

27. Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?  What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed  Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearied,  For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love! more happy, happy love!  For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd, For ever panting, and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above,  That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd,   A burning forehead, and a parching tongue. Who are these coming to the sacrifice?  To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,   And all her silken flanks with garlands drest? What little town by river or sea shore,   Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,   Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore   Will silent be; and not a soul to tell    Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed;   Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!  When old age shall this generation waste,   Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou s’ayest,  "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all    Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

28. I Used to But Now I Poem Template • I Used to But now I Poem • I used to _________________________________________________________ • But now I ________________________________________________________ • I always __________________________________________________________ • But I never _______________________________________________________ • I once ____________________________________________________________ • But now I ________________________________________________________ • If I could _________________________________________________________ • I would __________________________________________________________ • I never ___________________________________________________________ • But I might ______________________________________________________ • I can’t ___________________________________________________________ • But I can ________________________________________________________ • I won’t ___________________________________________________________ • But I might ______________________________________________________ • I used to _________________________________________________________ • But now I _________________________________________________________

29. More Poems • Free Verse: There are no rules in writing Free Verse poetry. There is no rhyme scheme or meter, and no specific length or number of stanzas. • Personification Poem: A poem which attributes human characteristics to an inanimate object, it does not follow any specific organizational pattern. • My Favorite Place Imagery Poem: A poem describing your favorite place with highly descriptive language, there is no specific organizational pattern.

30. I am from (Sample) • “I’m From the Woods….” by Nick •  I’m from the woods and the creek behind my fence From the gray wooden backyard deck. I’m from the honeysuckles,The pear trees by the neighbor’s garden From the creek when I swing over it. • I’m from the yellow walls of Grandma’s kitchenFrom the Yorkshire pup, the coolest thing in my family.I’m from macaroni pictures of the ArkFrom “I just can’t snap my fingers and make it happen” and from David the Gnome in summers long ago. • I’m from my mom’s side of the family,From roasting turkeys for each holiday,From when Papaw yelled at his boss and got firedFrom the family pictures in the big wooden cabinet andFrom the family gathering when we drag them out. • I am from those moments.A root that no one sees, but walks all overAn important part of the tree.”