Poetry types, special features and techniques that are used.

2. Objective
• Identify the types of poems
• Identify and understand the structure of each
type of poem

4. What’s a poem?
• Writing poems can be fun when you juggle all
the words and the rhythms together to make
them exciting. Poems can be out anything and
come in many different forms.

6. Acrostics
• An acrostic is a poem in which the first letters
of each line spell out a word or phrase.
• The first letter of each line is capitalized. This
makes it easier to see the word spelled out
vertically down the page.

7. Acrostics
Rules
• Decide what to write about.
• Write your word down vertically
• Brainstorm words or phrases that describe your
idea
• Place your brainstormed words or phrases on the
lines that begin with the same letters.
• Fill in the rest of the lines to create a poem.

8. Acrostic
• Crisp and colorful
• Adorable and crunchy
• Nice and tasty
• Delicious and tempting
• Yummy and best

9. Cinquain
• Cinquains are just five lines long, with only a
few words on each line, making them easy to
write.
• The first and last lines have just two syllables,
while the middle lines have more, so they end
up with a diamond-like shape

10. Cinquain
• The first line is one word giving the title. It has 2
syllables.
• The second line has 2 words that describe the
title. It has 4 syllables.
• The third line has 3 words that express an action.
It has 6 syllables.
• The fourth line has 2 words that express a
feeling. It has 8 syllables.
• The fifth line is 1 word. It has 2 or 3 syllables.

11. Cinquain
BubblesDelicate balls Softly Floating above
Unbelievable happinessTransparent

12. Haiku
• A haiku is an unrhymed three-line poem.
• The traditional pattern in English is to write
the first and last lines with five syllables each,
and the middle line with seven syllables.
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5

13. Haiku
The sun sets aboveAnd still I hear the sweet
soundof one hand thumping

14. Limerick
• Limericks are fun because they are short,
rhyming, funny, and have a bouncy rhythm
that makes them easy to memorize.
• are poems with five lines with a special beat
and rhyming pattern: Lines 1, 2 and 5 have 9
beats and the last words rhyme. Lines 3 and 4
have 6 beats and rhyme with each other.

15. Limerick
Rules
• They are five lines long.
• Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme with one another.
• Lines 3 and 4 rhyme with each other.
• They have a distinctive rhythm (which I’ll
explain shortly)
• They are usually funny.

16. Limerick
There once was an old man from PeruHis poor
llamas came down with the fluIn the valley he
passedAll the people who gaspedAt the beast
that was uttering "moo"

17. Couplet
• A pair of lines of poetry that are usually
rhymed. The last word of the first line and
last line rhyme.

18. Couplets
• Twinkle twinkle little star
• How I wonder what you are!

19. Shape
• a concrete poem is one that takes the shape
of the object it describes.

20. Shape
• 1. Think of some feeling (glad, sad, or mad is a good start), and
begin to think of writing a poem about it. 2. But imagine that your
poem is to be printed as a picture and that you can decide on the
ideal shape for the poem. 3. The shape can be anything you want,
as long as it has something to do with what your poem is about. 4.
It might be easiest to outline the shape first, and then erase it,
leaving a faint hint of the shape to guide you. 5. Popular examples
are hearts and angel wings, clouds, waves and the shape of the
number 7.

21. Shape

22. Free verse
• Prose written rich in imagery and broken up
with line breaks instead of punctuation and
paragraphing.
• FREE VERSE is a kind of poetry that has no
real rhythm or pattern, so you can put words
together in all sorts of ways. You can be VERY
imaginative!

23. Free verse
Autumn
Wind
Blowing briskly
Leaves fall
From
The
Trees
We rake
Colored leaves
In
A
Big
Pile.
And jump.

24. Alphabet
• An ABC poem has 5 lines that create a mood,
picture, or feeling.

25. Alphabet
• 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.

26. Alphabet
A young girl was busy working on her
project for school But suddenly she had a
question. Could this be her lucky day?
Deciding to find out, she Entered her
backyard and Found hundreds of green
shamrocks waiting for her.

28. Try
• You have couple of poems in front of you
• Identify what type of poems they are
• Discuss what makes them unique, what stands
out in each
• Do you know a poem?

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