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Narrative
Narrative poetry tells a story in verse.
They often have elements similar to those in shortstories, such as plot and characters.
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Example:Listen my children and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famous day and year.
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Haiku
Haiku is a three line Japanese verse form.
The first and third lines each have five syllables.
The second line has seven syllables.
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Example:
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,splash! Silence again.
The Old Pond
Remember:
First Line: 5 syllables
Second Line: 7 syllables
Third Line: 5 syllables
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Free Verse
Free verse poetry is defined by its lack of strict
structure
It has no regular meter, rhyme, line length or stanzapattern
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Example:I Dream'd in a Dream
by Walt Whitman
I DREAM'D in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks ofthe whole of the rest of the earth,I dream'd that was the new city of Friends,Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led
the rest,It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
And in all their looks and words.
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Lyric
Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of asingle speaker, often in musical verse
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Example:
At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives
Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lightsHer stove, and lays out food in tins.
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Ballads
Ballads are song-like poems that tell a story
They often deal with romance and adventure
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Example:'Twas Friday morn when we set sail,And we had not got far from land,When the Captain, he spied a lovely mermaid,
With a comb and a glass in her hand.
Oh the ocean waves may roll,And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloftAnd the land lubbers lay down below, below, belowAnd the land lubbers lay down below.
The Mermaid
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Concrete
Concrete poems are shaped to look like their subjects
The poet arranges the line to create a picture on thepage
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Examples:
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Limerick
Limericks are humorous, rhyming, five line poemswith a specific rhythm and rhyme scheme
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Example:There once was a clover named Kate,Who sat on the edge of a plate,The fancy folk dined,On foods of all kind,Then tossed her at quarter past eight.
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Rhyming couplets
Rhyming couplets are pairs of rhyming lines
They are usually of the same meter and length
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Example: By itself:
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though
Combined in a poem:
Humpty Dumpty sat on awall;
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the King's horses and all the King's menCouldn't put Humpty together again!