4. Couplet-Couplet- PoetryPoetry
• What is a couplet?
• Couplets are any two lines that
work together and form their own
stanza or are part of a larger stanza.
Most couplets rhyme (AA pattern),
but they do not have to rhyme.
5. • Couplet Examples
Tickle Day: Poems by Father Goose
– By Charles Ghigna
• from Little Daddy Longlegs
Little Daddy Longlegs played in the sun,
Climbing up the front steps just for fun.
6. • from Turtle Trouble
Tell me if you think you know
How to make a turtle go.
• from Tomorrow's My Birthday
Tomorrow's my birthday and I'll be four
And I won't have to stay home anymore.
• from Nature's Shows
Nature puts on little shows
Every time it rains or snows.
7. • Pumpkins on Guard
Look at all the pumpkin faces
Lighting up so many places.
On the porch and in the yard,
Pumpkin faces standing guard.
Looking friendly, looking mean,
With a smile or with a scream.
Orange faces burning bright
In the cool October night.
9. • My face is like a tomato.
• My face is red as a tomato.
• My bank account is dry as a bone.
• Her smile is bright like the sun.
• Her smile is as bright as the sun.
10. • Love is like a ghost.
• The sky was bright like fire.
• The sky was as bright as a fire.
15. • The rhyming pattern looks like this:
A
A
B
B
A
Limericks are usually very witty,
humorous, funny, or silly! When you
write your own limerick, think of it as
a very, very short story.
16. • There was an old lady whose chin
resembled the point of a pin;
so she had it made sharp,
and purchased a harp,
and played several tunes with her chin.
17. There was a young lady whose eyes
were unique as to color and size.
when she opened them wide,
people all turned aside,
and started away in surprise.
18. There was an old man in a tree
Whose whiskers were lovely to see;
But the birds of the air
Plucked them perfectly bare
To make themselves nests in that tree.
• -Edgar Lear
20. • Peter Piper picked a patch of pickled
peppers.
• The whisper of the wind whirled on
our wooden home.
• The molding of the mud made a
marvelous masterpiece.
• The soft snow fell slowly on the
sidewalk.
21. • Social studies has spoiled my super
supper.
• There is too much talent in Ms.
Tang’s class.
• Busy as a bee
• Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Minnie
Mouse
26. • The spoon was the first to speak.
• The car laughed as I pulled off the
road!
• The lazy vacuum cleaner refused to
work!
• The smiling moon came out early
tonight!
27. • Apples live with their families in a
tree.
• The camera loves me!
• My computer hates me!
• The mirror winked at me as I put on
my makeup!
28. Free Verse-Free Verse-PoetryPoetry
• What is free verse?
Free verse is the poem for you if
you like to break the rules. A free
verse poem does not have to rhyme,
but can have any pattern. Free
verse gives you a lot of freedom to
express yourself. Free verse can be
either rhymed or unrhymed and
have no set meter.
29. Fog
By Carl Sandburg
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
30. Chicago Poet
By Carl Sandburg
I SALUTED a nobody.
I saw him in a looking-glass.
He smiled- so did I.
He crumpled the skin on his forehead, frowning- so did I.
Everything I did he did.
I said, “Hello, I know you.”
And I was a liar to say so.
Ah, this looking-glass man!
Liar, fool, dreamer, play-actor,
Soldier, dusty-drinker of dust
Ah! he will go with me
Down the dark stairway
When nobody else is looking,
When everybody else is gone.
He locks his elbow in mine,
I lose all-but not him.
31. I, Too, Sing America
By Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.
Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed-
I, too, am America.
33. • I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
• My homework is piled to the ceiling.
• You are so tall you can touch the
sky.
34. • Our class is so big it can reach across
the state.
• That cat is as big as a whale.
• My brain is the size of a peanut.
• Sam is a hundred feet tall.
