3rd Grade Poetry

Poetry Forms

100

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm. It follows no rules.

What is free verse?

200

Humorous poem that have 5 lines with an AABBA rhyming pattern.

Limerick

300

A poem with 17 unrhymed syllables in 3 lines of poetry. 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second, and 5 in the last 

Haiku

400

A poem with rhyming sounds or identical sounding final syllables. Has a particular rhyming pattern.

Rhymed verse

Poetry Vocabulary

100

Two or more words which match in the same last sound.

What is rhyme?

200

What is a group of lines in a poem called?

A stanza

300

Instead of a narrator, poems have a ________.

speaker

400

True or False:

A poem can have a theme.

True

Poetry Examples

100

Beautiful sunrise. On a warm summer morning. I wait for day's start.

Which type of poem is this?

Haiku

200

I wish that my room had a floor.            

I don't care so much for a door.             

But this walking around               

Without touching the ground               

   Is getting to be quite a bore.

Which type of poem is this?

Limerick

300

A Jelly-Fish by Marianne More

Visible, invisible,
A fluctuating charm,
An amber-colored amethyst
Inhabits it; your arm
Approaches, and
It opens and
It closes;
You have meant
To catch it,
And it shrivels;
You abandon
Your intent—
It opens, and it
Closes and you
Reach for it—
The blue
Surrounding it
Grows cloudy, and
It floats away
From you.

Which type of poem is this?

Free Verse

400

Imagine a snail, As big as a whale,       Imagine a lark, As big as a shark,         Imagine a bee, As big as a tree.            Imagine a toad, as long as a road.

Which type of poem is this?

Rhymed verse