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Types of Poetry

About the Author

Poetry Websites

Poetry aims to present ideas and evokes (suggests)

emotions in the reader through a variety of characteristics and

forms

Directions

DIRECTIONS CHECKLIST Complete your note taking guide for the types of

poetry by using the links on the “TYPES OF POETRY” page.

As you learn about each type of poem use the “Example” button on each slide to read a sample of each type of poem.

Use the poetry websites on the “POETRY WEBSITES” page to write down a different example of each type of poem on your note taking guide.

Use the “POETRY WEBSITES” page to write down the title of poems on your note taking guide that make do the following: 1. laugh 2. feel sad 3. really think

TYPES OF POETRY

Narrative

Haiku

Free Verse

Lyric

Ballad

Concrete

Limerick

Rhyming Couplet

NARRATIVE

Tells a story in verse Often have elements similar to those in

short stories such as plot and characters

Example

HAIKU

A three line- Japanese verse form

The first and third lines each have five syllables and the second line has seven

Example

FREE VERSE

Defined by its lack of strict structure

No regular meter, rhymer, fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern

Example

LYRIC

Expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker

Often very musical in toneExampl

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BALLAD

Songlike poems that tell stories

Often deal with adventure and romance

Example

CONCRETE

Shaped to look like their subjects

Poet arranges the lines to look like a picture on the page

Example

LIMERICK

Humorous, rhyming, five-line poems

Contain a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme

Example

RHYMING COUPLET

Pairs of rhyming lines

Usually of the same meter and length

Example

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REFERENCES http://www.spart1.org/mms/?

User_ID=278&PersonalPage_ID=2917 http://

examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-haiku-poems.html

http://www.edu.pe.ca/stjean/playing%20with%20poetry/Hickey/freeexamples.htm

http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/dying.htm http://people.oregonstate.edu/~

smithc/vita/concrpoe.html http://www.poetry-online.org/limericks.htm http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~

adarice/cwsite/poems/couplet.htm

POETRY WEBSITES The Poetry Archive for Students

Types of Poetry

Poetry for Kids

Poem Hunter (Search For Poems)

Poems for Kids

NARRATIVE EXAMPLEPapa’s Fishing Hole I place my tiny hand in his as we walk to Papa’s Fishing Hole. I hand him a wiggling night crawler fighting for his life. The deadly hook squishes through the worm’s head, and I watch the brown guts ooze out. Papa throws the pole’s long arm back and then forward. The line lands in a merky spot along the reedy shore. Now I get to reel it in. Nothing yet, he says.

He casts again. I reel it in. Still nothing. Three time’s a charm, he says. He casts. A strike. We turn the crank together. The fish jumps from the water and his colors form a rainbow as he arches his body above the reeds. My Papa handles him with the skill of a master as I stop helping to watch him work. A stiff jerk, a quick reel, a stiff jerk again. The fish doesn’t have a chance, I yell. I know. I know. I know, he says. -Elisabeth D. Babin Babin, Elisabeth D. "Papa’s Fishing Hole." Tempest. Spring 1994. 27.

HAIKU EXAMPLE

An old silent pond...A frog jumps into the pond,

splash! Silence again.

FREE VERSE EXAMPLEDolphins

Here I swim, with my friends. They jump around me and flip in the air. 

I am in Florida. There is lots of different kinds of dolphin’s

I am a Bottled nosed dolphin. I slip in the water to find my prey.

My predators are sharks and some biggeranimals than me that live in the ocean. 

I see something standing on land that I have seen before.

There is a noise coming from there. I keep playing with my friends.

LYRIC EXAMPLE Dying by Emily DickinsonI heard a fly buzz when I died;The stillness round my formWas like the stillness in the airBetween the heaves of storm.

The eyes beside had wrung them dry,And breaths were gathering sureFor that last onset, when the kingBe witnessed in his power.

I willed my keepsakes, signed awayWhat portion of me ICould make assignable,-and thenThere interposed a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,Between the light and me;And then the windows failed, and thenI could not see to see.

BALLAD EXAMPLEOn Top of Spaghetti

On top of spaghetti,All covered with cheese,I lost my poor meatball,

When somebody sneezed.It rolled off the table,And on to the floor,

And then my poor meatball,Rolled out of the door.It rolled in the garden,

And under a bush,And then my poor meatball,

Was nothing but mush.The mush was as tasty

As tasty could be,And then the next summer,

It grew into a tree.The tree was all covered,

All covered with moss,And on it grew meatballs,

And tomato sauce.So if you eat spaghetti,All covered with cheese,Hold on to your meatball,

Whenever you sneeze.

CONCRETE EXAMPLE

LIMERICK EXAMPLE

There was an Old Person of Dover,Who rushed through a field of blue Clover;

But some very large bees,Stung his nose and his knees,

So he very soon went back to Dover.

RHYMING COUPLET EXAMPLE

Decorator Hermit CrabThere was a little hermit crab

Who thought his tank was rather drabAt first he didn't know what to do

Then decorated with pink and blue.Now he is no longer crabby

With his new home, he's rather happy!