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*Poetry is concentrated thought which focuses our a en on simultaneouslyon the combina on of rhythm and image to express its meaning

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Poetry Mini-Book

Poetry Mini-Book

Prose (not‐poetry) Poetry

*opposite of poetry

*no rhyme

*no pa ern

*no rhythm/beat

*sentences

*paragraphs

*opposite of prose

*may rhyme

*may have a pa ern

*has rhythm/beat

*lines

*stanzas

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Can you find the rhyming pa ern?  Use capital le ers star ng with the beginning of the alphabet.   

1.

I knew I’d have to grow up some me, ______

That my childhood memories would end, ______

But a spark within me died, ______

When I lost my imaginary friend. ______

2.

As the sun set and the moon came, ______

I looked out the window in dread and shame ______

The sound of birds rose from the sky, ______

I waved my hand and bid goodbye. ______

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Bonus points for adding the following things to your poems! 

*Figura ve language (idioms, similes, metaphors, hyperboles)

*Onomatopoeias & cacophonies

*Allitera ons (assonances, sibilances, consonances)

Before you begin... Table of Contents

Page Type of Poem Poem Title

2 Couplet

3 Triplet

4 Quatrain

5 Cinquain

6 Concrete/

7 Diamond

8 Free Verse

9 Clerihew

10 Limerick

11 Haiku

12 Ballad/

13 Ode

14 Sonnet

1 Acrostic

Does it Rhyme? No 

Do syllables ma er? No 

Is there a set pa ern/formula?  Each line must start with a specific le er.  The first le er of each line, spells out a word.   

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Example: 

Acrostic Acrostic

M

O

M

akes wonderful children

rganized

agnificient cook

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Does it Rhyme? Yes 

Do syllables ma er?  No 

Is  there a set pa ern/formula?    It  is simply  two  lines that  rhyme.    It can stand alone or it can be a part of a bigger poem.  It follows the AA format. 

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Example: 

I like to play with my cat. 

He looks cute wearing my hat.  

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Couplet Couplet

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Does it Rhyme? Usually 

Do syllables ma er?  No 

Is there a set pa ern/formula?  It is simply three lines that usually rhyme.  It can stand alone or it can be a part of a bigger poem.   

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Example:

The presents that you bring (A) Are not only just for me (B) Because you brought the spring. (A)

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Triplet Triplet

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Does it Rhyme? Yes 

Do syllables ma er?  No 

Is there a set pa ern/formula?    It  is simply  four  lines that rhyme.    It can stand alone or it can be a part of a bigger poem.   

A quatrain is a poem written in four, rhymed lines following a set pattern. They follow any one of four rhyme patterns (AABB, ABAB, ABBA, or ABCB). The poem usually has about the same number of poetic feet in each line. When quatrains are part of a longer poem, each group is called a stanza or "paragraph". There is a title if the quatrain stands alone.

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Example: 

The lizard is a mid thing (A) That cannot dance or fly or sing; (A) He hunts for bugs beneath the floor (B) And longs to be a dinosaur. (B)

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Quatrain Quatrain

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Does it Rhyme? No 

Do syllables ma er?  Yes 

Is there a set pa ern/formula?  Yes, see below.  

A five‐line poem with a set number of syllables for each line. Each line adds an addi onal image to the subject of the poem

Line 1 2 syllables Subject

Line 2 4 syllables Descrip on of subject

Line 3 6 syllables Describes an ac on

Line 4 8 syllables Expresses a feeling

Line 5 2 syllables Another word for subject

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Example

Summer

Fruits, ice cream, fun

Swimming, playing, laughing

No homework, only sun, I smile

Three months

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Cinquain Cinquain

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Does it Rhyme? Maybe 

Do syllables ma er?  No 

Is there a set pa ern/formula?  It is simply a poem where the words form a picture related to the poem or the words go inside the shape of the po‐em.   

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Concrete/Shape Concrete/Shape

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Does it Rhyme? No 

Do syllables ma er?  No 

Is there a set pa ern/formula?  Yes.  See below.   

WHAT IS A DIAMANTE?

A diamante – pronounced dee-uh-MAHN-tay – is an unrhymed sev-en-line poem. The beginning and ending lines are the shortest, while the lines in the middle are longer, giving diamante poems a diamond shape. “Diamante” is the Italian word for diamond, so this poetic form is named for this diamond shape.

Believe it or not, the diamante was invented just 40 years ago. It was created by an American poet named Iris McClellan Tiedt in 1969, and has become very popular in schools.

There are just a few rules to writing a diamante: Diamantes are 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: Noun

Adjective, Adjective Verb, Verb, Verb

Noun, Noun, Noun, Noun Verb, Verb, Verb

Adjective, Adjective Noun

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_____________, _____________ Adjective, Adjective

_____________, _____________, _____________ Verb, Verb, Verb

_____________, _____________, _____________, _____________ Noun, Noun, Noun, Noun

_____________,_____________, _____________ Verb, Verb, Verb

_____________, _____________ Adjective, Adjective

_____________ Noun

Diamond Diamond

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Does it Rhyme? Maybe 

Do syllables ma er?  Maybe 

Is there a set pa ern/formula? No  

Free Verse is a form of Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pa ern. 

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Example:

Song of Myself by 

Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loaf and invite my soul,

I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

Free Verse Free Verse

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Does it Rhyme? Yes 

Do syllables ma er?  No 

Is there a set pa ern/formula? Yes.  See below.  

Clerihews have just a few simple rules:

1. They are four lines long.2. The first and second lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourthlines rhyme with each other. In other words, they have a rhyme scheme ofAABB3. The first line names a person, and the second line ends with somethingthat rhymes with the name of the person.4. A clerihew should be funny.

That is it! You do not have to worry about coun ng syllables or words, and you do not even have to worry about the rhythm of the poem.

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Example:

Our art teacher, Mr. Shaw, Really knows how to draw.

*No ce that the first line ends with the name of the person the clerihew is about, Mr. Shaw. The second line ends with "draw" because it rhymes with "Shaw."

*To finish the clerihew, you need to write two more rhyming lines. In a well‐wri en cleri‐hew, those next two lines will make the poem funny, like this:

Our art teacher, Mr. Shaw, Really knows how to draw. But his awful pain ngs Have caused many fain ngs.

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Clerihew Clerihew

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Does it Rhyme? Yes 

Do syllables ma er?  Yes 

Is there a set pa ern/formula? Yes.  See below.  

Limerick Poems are:

*Named a er a county in Ireland

*Humorous

*5 lines total

*Rhyme Scheme AABBA

*Beats‐Lines 1, 2, 5 have 3 beats

Lines 3‐4 have 2 beats

*First line usually has the name of a place (o en a fic onal name made upto rhyme with the rest of the poem)

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Limerick Limerick

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Does it Rhyme? No 

Do syllables ma er?  Yes 

Is there a set pa ern/formula? Yes.  See below.  

*Japanese poem

*O en about nature

*Follows the following format:

3 lines

*Syllables:

Line 1=5 syllables

Line 2=7 syllables

Line 3=5 syllables

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Example:

As the wind does blow

Across the trees, I see the

Buds blooming in May

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Haiku Haiku

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Does it Rhyme? Maybe 

Do syllables ma er?  No 

Is there a set pa ern/formula? No  

Essentially, a ballad is a poem that tells a story. The ballad is at the intersection of poetry and song, from traditional folk ballads crystal-lizing out of the mists of the ancient oral tradition to modern literary ballads in which poets use the old narrative forms to retell tradition-al legends or to tell stories of their own. It is a narrative, a story, written in poetry form.

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”Annabel Lee”

By Edgar Allan Poe

“Wide Awake”

By Katy Perry

“How to Save a Life”

by The Fray

Ballad/Narrative Ballad/Narrative

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Does it Rhyme? Maybe 

Do syllables ma er?  No 

Is there a set pa ern/formula? No  

An ode  is a formal poem, usually set to music.   It  is a poem celebra ng a person, place, thing, or idea.   

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Ode to Ken 

Ode to Ken

He is my husband

He likes to wear jeans

He is the man of my dreams

He was in the Marines

Oh, how I love my dear Ken.

Ode Ode

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Does it Rhyme? Yes 

Do syllables ma er?  Maybe  

Is  there  a  set  pa ern/formula?  14  lines,  ABABCDCDEFEFGG  (in  other words, three quatrains and a couplet) 

*Comes from the Italian word “sone o” which means li le song.

*Shakespeare wrote many famous sonnets.

*When wri ng  your  poem,  it  is  easier  to write  the  lines  in  alphabe calorder.

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Example: 

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Sonnet Sonnet

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