12 types of poetry. limerick a five line poem that is almost always humorous. it has an aabba...

12 Types of Poetry

LimerickA five line poem that is almost always

humorous. It has an AABBA pattern.

Cinquain A five line poetic form intended to show

emotion. It’s pattern creates the shape of a Christmas tree. 2, 4, 6, 8, 2.

Diamante An unrhymed poetic form named for it’s

shape. It contains nouns, adjectives, verbs.

Haiku Japanese poetic form consisting of three

lines containing 17 syllables. It has a 5, 7, 5 pattern.

Acrostic Poetic style in which the topic or title is

written vertically. The poet then uses the letters in the title to develop each line of poetry. Each line in the poem describes the topic.

Name Poem A poem in which one word of each letter

of a person’s name or proper noun is used as the initial letter for one line of the poem.

Concrete Poem (Poetry Patterns)

Poems written in the shape of the poem’s main idea. They do not have to rhyme.

Quatrains Four line poems that may follow any one

of four different rhyme patterns. (AABB, ABAB, ABBA, ABCB)

ABC Poem A poem written in short form and

expresses strong emotion. The initial letters of the beginning words in each line are written alphabetically.

Alliteration A poem written with the repetition of a

sound in two or more neighboring words. It is the repeated use of an accented syllable that has the same beginning sound.

Sound poem A poem that uses onomatopoeia to

show the sounds that we hear all the time. Onomatopoeia is the use of words that sound like the noise they name.

Tanka poem Oriental poem much like haiku, except

that it has 5 lines with a 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 pattern. 31 syllables.