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Poetry
Learning ballads, free verse, sonnets, haiku, odes, lyric poem epic and limericks.
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Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response.
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Subcategories
Ballads
A narrative song with a recurrent refrain
A ballad is a poem usually set to music
A narrative poem composed of short verses, intended to be sung or recited
Example: Untitled
Free Verse
Verse depending for its poetic effect upon irregular rhythmical pattern, either absence or irregularity of rhyme, and the use of cadenced speech rhythms rather than conventional verse forms
Characteristics: informal
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Good Tips
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Sonnets
A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Rhyme scheme usually follows:
Characteristics: 14 lines, rhyme scheme
Example: How do I love thee?
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Odes
A lyric poem with complex stanza forms
A long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form
Example: Alexander’s Feast
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Limericks
A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict form; rhyme scheme usually aabba
Limericks are frequently witty or humorous, and sometimes obscene with humorous intent
Example: Tim, Old Man in a Boat
Name your limerick!!
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Limerick
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Origin
The origin of the actual name limerick for this type of poem is obscure.
Its use was first documented in the UK in 1898 (New English Dictionary) and in the USA in 1902.
The name ‘Limerick’ is predated by the work of Edward Lear who published his first Book of Nonsense in 1845 and a later work (1872) on the same theme.
Lear wrote 212 limericks, mostly nonsense verse.
It was customary at the time for limericks to accompany an absurd illustration of the same subject, and for the final line of the limerick to be a kind of conclusion, usually a variant of the first line ending in the same word.
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Whose grandmother threatened to burn her;
But she seized on the cat, and said 'Granny, burn that!
You incongruous old woman of Smyrna!'
(Lear's limericks were often typeset in three or four lines, according to the space available under the accompanying picture.)
An interesting, and maybe somewhat dated aspect of Lear’s limericks is his tendency to use the same word at the end of the first and last lines, most often a place name.
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Characteristics
Rhyme: AABBA
Via hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns and other figurative devices
Last line of a good limerick contains a punch line or heart of the joke.
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Haiku
Haiku is a kind of Japanese poetry
Poetry that is three lines long. The first line is five syllables, the second line is seven syllables, and the third line is five syllables long.
Examples: Baked Goodies, Falling on the Ground, and Haiku Space.
Can you haiku?
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Deals with traditions, mythical or historical, of a nation
See sample Tiddalick
Lyric Poem
that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now commonly referred to as the words to a song. Lyric poetry does not tell a story which portrays characters and actions. The lyric poet addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own feeling, state of mind, and perceptions.
Dying
by
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.
Poetry
Learning ballads, free verse, sonnets, haiku, odes, lyric poem epic and limericks.
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Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response.
Page *
Subcategories
Ballads
A narrative song with a recurrent refrain
A ballad is a poem usually set to music
A narrative poem composed of short verses, intended to be sung or recited
Example: Untitled
Free Verse
Verse depending for its poetic effect upon irregular rhythmical pattern, either absence or irregularity of rhyme, and the use of cadenced speech rhythms rather than conventional verse forms
Characteristics: informal
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Good Tips
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Sonnets
A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Rhyme scheme usually follows:
Characteristics: 14 lines, rhyme scheme
Example: How do I love thee?
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Odes
A lyric poem with complex stanza forms
A long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form
Example: Alexander’s Feast
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Limericks
A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict form; rhyme scheme usually aabba
Limericks are frequently witty or humorous, and sometimes obscene with humorous intent
Example: Tim, Old Man in a Boat
Name your limerick!!
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Limerick
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Origin
The origin of the actual name limerick for this type of poem is obscure.
Its use was first documented in the UK in 1898 (New English Dictionary) and in the USA in 1902.
The name ‘Limerick’ is predated by the work of Edward Lear who published his first Book of Nonsense in 1845 and a later work (1872) on the same theme.
Lear wrote 212 limericks, mostly nonsense verse.
It was customary at the time for limericks to accompany an absurd illustration of the same subject, and for the final line of the limerick to be a kind of conclusion, usually a variant of the first line ending in the same word.
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Whose grandmother threatened to burn her;
But she seized on the cat, and said 'Granny, burn that!
You incongruous old woman of Smyrna!'
(Lear's limericks were often typeset in three or four lines, according to the space available under the accompanying picture.)
An interesting, and maybe somewhat dated aspect of Lear’s limericks is his tendency to use the same word at the end of the first and last lines, most often a place name.
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Characteristics
Rhyme: AABBA
Via hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns and other figurative devices
Last line of a good limerick contains a punch line or heart of the joke.
88558
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Haiku
Haiku is a kind of Japanese poetry
Poetry that is three lines long. The first line is five syllables, the second line is seven syllables, and the third line is five syllables long.
Examples: Baked Goodies, Falling on the Ground, and Haiku Space.
Can you haiku?
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Deals with traditions, mythical or historical, of a nation
See sample Tiddalick
Lyric Poem
that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now commonly referred to as the words to a song. Lyric poetry does not tell a story which portrays characters and actions. The lyric poet addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own feeling, state of mind, and perceptions.
Dying
by
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.