Types of Poetry
A poem that does not require rhyme, rhyme scheme, stanzas, or meter.
Free Verse
A number of lines that divide a poem into sections.
Stanza
A pattern of rhyme or stanzas in a poem.
Rhyme Scheme
What poem is this?
There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was horribly bored by a bee.
When they said "Does it buzz?"
He replied "Yes, it does!
It's a regular brute of a bee!"
Limerick
A short poem that expresses the poet's personal feelings about something.
Lyric
When 2 or more words have the same sound
Rhyme
A comparison of 2 unlike things using "like" or "as".
Simile
What type of poem is this?
She calls me tofu
because I am so soft,
easily falling apart.
I wish I were tough
and full of fire, like ginger -
like her.
Free Verse
A Japanese poem that paints a picture of nature. It overall has 17 syllables.
Haiku
When the poet gives human qualities to non-human things.
Personification
Using the page, spaces between words, indentions to create an effect in a poem.
White Space
What type of poem is this?
the night you died Doc
the sunset was one of those
burning summer sunsets
play on late clouds, take
their time rolling across
West Hill. To Slaughter.
Where, like everywhere
else, the good ones die and
the drunk drivers sit in jail
Wondering: Why Me?
Elegy
A poem which states the poet's sadness about the death of an important person.
Elegy
The use of words that sound like the objects or actions they describe.
Onomatopoeia
The repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry (but not at the beginning of words)
Consonance
What type of poem is this?
Winter solitude -
In a world of one color
the sound of wind.
Haiku
A fourteen-line poem which states a poet’s personal feelings.
Sonnet
The use of exaggeration as a figure of speech.
Hyperbole
The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry.
Assonance
What type of poem is this?
I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.
Lyric