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These poems do not have to rhyme but depend on the rhythm or cadence for their poetic form.
Free Verse
An ancient Japanese verse that can be traced back to the 13th century. The first and third lines contain five syllables while the second line contains seven. A five line verse that follows the rhyme scheme of AABBA. The fifth line usually ends in a surprise or humorous statement.
Haiku
Words whose endings match; one of the most common techniques in traditional poetry.
Rhyme
What kind of poem is this?
Faces familiar
Sitting in each row of five
Time continues on.
Haiku
This type of poetry tells a story.
Ballad
A fourteen line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme. Often written in iambic pentameter.
Sonnet
Words that begin with the same sound and are placed close together.
Alliteration
What kind of poem is this?
Light
Clear, Brilliant
Glowing, Shining, Revealing
Mirror, Candle - Whisper, Shadow
Deepening, Sleeping, Shrouding
Black, Quiet
Dark
Antyonym Diamante
This poem relates to a particular event, episode, or tells a long tale. It can be a lyric, sonnet, or free verse poem.
Narrative
The repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences.
Assonance
Five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables for a ten-syllable line.
Iambic Pentameter
Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
William Shakespeare
The first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically.
Acrostic Poem
A five line verse that follows the rhyme scheme of AABBA. The fifth line usually ends in a surprise or humorous statement.
Limerick
What kind of poem is this?
There was an old man from Peru
Who dreamed he was eating his shoe.
He awoke in the night
With a terrible fright
Limerick
Who said, “Quoth the raven, Nevermore.”
Edgar Allen Poe
Who was known to be a very dark poet?
Edgar Allen Poe
Picture poems that invite the reader to see what they are saying. The letters in a make up the shape of the subject of the poem.
Concrete Poem
A kind of metaphor in which you describe an inanimate object, abstract thing, or non-human animal in human terms.
Personification
What kind of poem is this?
After an extensive winter
Pretty Tulips
Rise from the once
Icy ground bringing signs of
Life
Acrostic Poem
Who wrote the poem Still I Rise?
Maya Angelou
Who wrote sonnets in iambic pentameter?
William Shakespeare