Poetry

%%Haiku%%

a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

Example: Leave gracefully dance (5)

As if the wind tickles them (7)

Whoosh! The wind sings only. (5)

%%Acrostic%%

a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.

Example:

Steve the Snowman

Nose made from a carrot

Orange and bright on a dark wintery night

Wearing a warm wooly scarf

Melting

All alone

Now he is gone

%%Sonnet%%

a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. The last word must rhyme with another with this format. “ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG”

Example:

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; (A) \n Coral is far more red than her lips' red; (B) \n If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; (A) \n If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. (B)

\n I have seen roses damasked, red and white, (C) \n But no such roses see I in her cheeks; (D) \n And in some perfumes is there more delight (C) \n Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. (D)

\n I love to hear her speak, yet well I know (E) \n That music hath a far more pleasing sound; (F) \n I grant I never saw a goddess go; (E) \n My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. (F)

\n And yet, by heaven, I think my love is rare (G) \n As any, she belied with false compare. (G)

%%Limerick%%

A limerick is a five-line poem that consists of a single stanza, an AABBA rhyme scheme, and whose subject is a short, pithy tale or description.

Example:

Santa’s little helper felt poorly sick (A)

Couldn’t deliver presents for Saint Nick (A)

His red nose was gleaming (B)

Blue eyes they were streaming (B)

I hope that Santa will give him some Vick (A)

%%Free Verse%%

Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French vers libre form.

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