Various Poem Types

1. Various Poem Types Mr. Barazzuol

2. Acrostic • Decide what to write about. • Write your word down vertically. • Brainstorm words or phrases that describe your idea. • Place your brainstormed words or phrases on the lines that begin with the same letters. • Fill in the rest of the lines to create a poem.

4. Diamante • THE RULES OF A DIAMANTE • Seven lines long. • The first and last lines have just one word.
The second and sixth lines have two words.
The third and fifth lines have three words.
And the fourth line has four words. • Lines 1, 4, and 7 have nouns.
Lines 2 and 6 have adjectives.
Lines 3 and 5 have verbs. • Here’s an easy way to visualize all three rules: NounAdjective, Adjective
Verb, Verb, Verb
Noun, Noun, Noun, Noun
Verb, Verb, Verb
Adjective, AdjectiveNoun

5. Monsters
Evil, Spooky
Howling, Shrieking, Wailing
Ghosts, Vampires, Goblins, Witches
Flying, Scaring, Terrifying
Creepy, Crawly
Creatures Sun
Fiery, Yellow
Burning, Blinding, Exploding
Flame, Light, Night, Crescent
Shining, Orbiting, Reflecting
Cold, Silver
Moon

6. Concrete • Shape Poem • Choose an object to be the subject for your poem.  • Draw a simple outline of its shape on paper • Write your poem normally.  Try to describe how the subject makes you feel.  • Between 6-12 lines is probably a good length!

8. Limerick • THE RULES OF LIMERICKS • Limericks, like all poetic forms, have a set of rules that you need to follow. The rules for a limerick are fairly simple: • They are five lines long. • Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme with one another. • Lines 3 and 4 rhyme with each other. • They have a distinctive rhythm • They are usually funny. • RHYMING A LIMERICK • The rhyme scheme is AABBA

10. Practice: 1) Attempt an acrostic poem • Your topic is ‘Childhood’ 2) Attempt a diamante poem • Your topic is ‘Graduation’ 3) Attempt a concrete poem • Your topic is “movies” 4) Attempt a limerick poem • Your topic is anything that you want!!!