Types of Poems

1. Types of Poems What kind of poetry do you enjoy?

2. Limerick A five line poem where lines 1, 2 and 5 always rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme.

3. Limerick Example The Test Pilot • A Plane builder needed a pilot, • So Bob told the guy, he would try it. • When Bob took to the air, • Plane parts fell everywhere. • Bob radioed “where shall I pile it?”

4. Ballad • A songlike poem that tells a story, and often has a refrain. These were first passed by word of mouth.

5. Ballad Example • The Ballad of Marian Blacktree • Refrain: Oh, do you know the mountain road That leads to yonder peak? A few will walk that trail alone, Their dreams they go to seek. • One such was Marian Blacktree, A lowly sheperdess, And courting her was Tom, the swain, Who loved her nonetheless.

6. Sonnet • 14-line lyrical poem with 3 4-line stanzas followed by a couplet

7. Sonnet Example Sonnet of Demeter--Italian Sonnet Oh the pirate stars, they have no mercy! Masquerading as hope they tell their lies; Only the young can hear their lullabies. But I am barren and I am thirsty Since she has gone. No hope is there for me. I will roam and curse this earth and these skies— Death from life which Zeus sovereign denies. My heart's ill shall the whole world's illness be Till she is returned-- my daughter, my blood— From the dark hand of Hades to my care . With my tears these mortals shall know a flood To show Poseidon's realm desert and bare. No myrtle shall flower, no cypress bud Till the gods release her...and my despair.

8. Cinquain A five line poem with 2 syllables in the first line, 4 in the second, 6 in the third, 8 in the fourth and 2 in the fifth.

9. Cinquain Example Angels kind beyond words they protect and forgive and make feelings of blissfulness cherubim

10. Haiku • An unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having 3 lines containing 5, 7, 5 syllables respectively. • It was traditionally about nature.

11. Haiku Example An old pond! A frog jumps in-- the sound of water.