Types of Poems
What do you call a poem with regular rhymes and rhythms?
A Rhymed Verse
What is a line of a poem?
A single line or verse
Coolness fills the air
Scarves and sweater everywhere
Fall weather is here
Haiku
What do you call apoem with no regular rhymes or patterns?
A free verse poem
What is a stanza?
A group of lines of a poem.
The fog comes on little cat feet.
It sits overlooking the harbor and city on silent legs and then moves on.
Free verse
What do you call a poem, usually about nature, with three lines that follow 5 syllables, 3 syllables, and 5 syllables?
A Haiku poem
What is a poet?
The author of a poem.
Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Rhyming poem
What do you call a poem that has 5 lines follows an AABBA rhyme scheme and is often silly?
A Limerick poem
What is a rhyme? Give an example of two words that rhyme.
Words that end with the same sound.
There was an old man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket;
But his daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man—
And as far as the bucket, Nantucket.
A limerick
Say a poem aloud and then tell me what type of poem it is.
What is the rhythm?
The beat of a poem.
What your favorite type of poem and why?
Answer varies