Poetry Forms
A cinquain has five lines.
Line 1 is one word (the title); Love
Line 2 is two words that describe the title. Amore, fondness
Line 3 is three words that tell action accepting, giving, being
Line 4 is four words that express feeling to these give way!
Line 5 is one word that recalls the title Love.
Love
Amore, fondness
Accepting, giving, being,
To these give way!
Love.
~SMZ~
A quatrain has four lines.
Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme.
Lines 1 and 3 may or may not rhyme.
Rhyming lines should have about the same number of syllables.
On a good day or on a bad
What you choose to recall
Can make for happy or for sad
Be the author and make the call
A limerick has five lines.
Lines 1, 2, and 5 have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another.
Lines 3 and 4 have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other.
There was a petal in the sky.
Riding the wind up high.
The wind slowly died down.
Dropping the petal to the ground.
Where the flowers wave by and by.
A tanka has five lines and 31 syllables.
Lines 1 and 3 have five syllables each.
Lines 2, 4, and 5 have seven syllables each
A haiku has three lines
Lines 1 and 3 have five syllables.
Line 2 has seven syllables.
A couplet has rhyming stanzas each made up of two lines.
A name poem tells about the word. It uses the letters of the word for the first letter of each line.
Peace
People...
Everywhere ...
Are ...
Created ...
Equal….
An ABC poem has 5 lines that create a mood, picture, or feeling.
Lines 1 through 4 are made up of words, phrases or clauses - and the first word of each line is in alphabetical order from the first word. Line 5 is one sentence, beginning with any letter.
A parts of speech poem has five lines.
Line 1 is one article and 1 noun.
Line 2 is an adjective, a conjunction, and another adjective.
Line 3 is one verb, one conjunction and one verb.
Line 4 is one adverb.
Line 5 is one noun or pronoun that relates to line one
Poetry Patterns:
Blank Verse
Introduced to England in the 16th century, blank verse consists of unrhymed lines of ten syllables each; with the second, fourth, sixth, eighth, and tenth syllables bearing the accents. This form can also be thought of as double iambic pentameter.
Blank verse is especially well-adapted to dramatic verse. Early masters of blank verse include Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and John Milton.
(Rhymed) Couplet
A rhymed couplet consists of two successive lines of verse with similar end-rhymes. Both the grammatical structure and the idea of the rhymed couplet convey a sense of completion.
Three common types of couplets are: (1) a closed couplet, (2) an open couplet, and (3) a heroic couplet. The predominant couplet in English is the heroic couplet. This type of couplet consists of two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter with a pause, usually in the middle of each line.
(Rhymed) Stanza
A rhymed stanza is a division of a poem that consists of two or more lines arranged together as a unit. A stanza's group of lines is usually arranged around a recurring pattern of metrical length and sequence of rhyme. This structure is determined by the number of lines, the dominant meter, and the rhyme scheme.
Types of Poetry:
Narrative Poem
A narrative poem is a non-dramatic poem that tells a story or presents a narrative. A narrative poem may be long or short, complex or simple.
Some Types of Narrative Poems:
· Ballads
· Epics
· Metrical Romances
Dramatic Poem
A dramatic poem is a poem that employs dramatic form or technique.
Satiric Poem
A satiric poem is a poem that treats its subject with irony and/or ridicule.
Didactic Poem
A didactic poem is a poem that is intended primarily to teach a lesson.
Sonnet
A sonnet is a lyrical poem of fourteen lines, highly arbitrary in form and following one of several rhyme conventions.
Ode
An ode is a ceremonious lyrical poem marked by exaltation or feeling and style. An ode has varying line length and complex stanzas.
Elegy
An elegy is a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon a grave theme (usually death).
Some information for the following page was adapted from:
Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
A Handbook to Literature, rev. ed.,
by William Flint Thrall, Addison Hibbard, & C. Hugh Holman
and A Glossary of Literary Terms, 6th ed., by M. H. Abrams
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