Types of Poems
This type of poem used descriptions using imagery to build a beautiful display on the back wall.
Colour Poem
Poems are usually made up of this. They are organized within Stanzas.
Line
This technique is used when “like” or “as”is used to compare two unlike things.
Simile
This song by Frank Sinatra used an acrostic poem to describe the songs title.
LOVE
"A piece of cake", "Cat got your tongue" and "Spill the beans" are all examples of this.
Idioms
This type of poem does not follow any structure. It does not have a set amount of lines, stanzas or syllable.
Free Verse
Words that have the same meaning and can replace each other.
Synonyms
This technique is used to compare two unlike things without using "like" or "as".
Metaphor
This poem by Nadia McGhee (recreated on Tik Tok by Tia Wood) uses metaphors and similes to compare eye colours.
Brown Eyes
This is used when you give human-like characteristics to an object or animal.
Personification
This type of poem is often funny, silly, and/or difficult to read. The poets can combine or switch letters to make for difficult to read poems.
Non-Sense Poem
This is the parts of a word broken into sounds. Used to determine some of the words you would use in a Haiku.
Syllables
This technique uses words that either create a sound effect or sound similar to to the sound that they make.
Onomatopoeia
This song uses imagery to provide vivid descriptions that involve multiple senses to describe a place far away.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
This was an example of which type of poem:
If not for the cat,
And the scarcity of cheese,
I could be content.
Haiku
This type of poem takes a topic and writes it vertically (down) your page. You write lines or words related to the topic that begin with the letters you wrote vertically.
Acrostic Poem
A group of lines in a poem. The lines go together like sentences in a paragraph to create this group.
This technique is when there is a repetition of the first letter (or sound) of each word.
Alliteration
This poem was used in class to analyze the meaning and show your understanding. It compares youth to age.
Youth, I Do Adore Thee
BOOM!, Ding Dong, Knock Knock, and Pow are all examples of this.
Onomatopoeia
This small poem with only 3 short lines follows the format:
Line 1: 5 syllables
Line 2: 7 syllables
Line 3: 5 syllables
Haiku
Words that have opposite meanings and can be used to point out contrasts.
Antonyms
This technique is when there is an exaggeration which couldn't possibly happen in real life.
Hyperbole
This poem was written by Lewis Carroll and can be found in the novel Alice Through the Looking Glass.
The Jabberwocky
This uses sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch to create a understanding and description in the readers mind.
Imagery