Types of Poetry

Ballad

100

T/F - Ballads were originally set to music.

True

200

How many lines are usually in the stanza of a ballad?

4

300

What kind of poem is a ballad?

Narrative

400

What is the usual rhyming scheme of a ballad?

ABAB

500

Is the below poem a ballad?

“It was many and many a year ago,
   In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
   By the name of Annabel Lee;”

Edgar Allan Poe

Yes

Limerick

100

T/F - Limericks are usually dark, heavy and depressing.

False

200

How many lines are in a Limerick?

5

300

How many syllables are in each line of a Limerick?

Lines 1,2, and 5 = 8-9

Lines 3, 4 = 5-6

400

What is the rhyming scheme of a Limerick?

AABBA

500

Is this a Limerick?

"A flickering flame, on the wall
The sound of a, coyotes call
The desert winds, singing at night
Sandstorms dancing, in the moonlight
Embracing lovers, to befall"

-Pat Bibbs

No

Haiku

100

T/F - Haiku's originate from Korea

False

200

How many lines are in a Haiku?

3

300

How many syllables are in each line of a Haiku?

5-7-5

400

What is the rhyming scheme of a Haiku?

There is not one

500

Is this a Haiku?

To him, she was rain

To her, he was sunshine

Together, they made rainbows

No

Rhyming Schemes

100

What is the rhyming scheme?

In the winter it's every kid's dream,

As snowflakes begin to appear,

That suddenly there'll be a blizzard

And they'll cancel school for the year.

ABCA

200

What is the rhyming scheme?

Dust of Snow - Robert Frost

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.

ABABCDCD

300

What is the rhyming scheme?

POET'S TREE - SHEL SILVERSTEIN

Underneath the poet tree

Come and rest awhile with me,

And watch the way the word-web weaves

Between the shady story leaves.

The branches of the poet tree

Reach from the mountains to the sea.

So come and dream, or come and climb---

Just don't get hit by falling rhymes.

AABBAACC

400

What is the rhyming scheme?

ANNABEL LEE - EDGAR ALLAN POE

It was many and many years ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

ABABCB

500

What is the rhyming scheme?

BY EMILY DICKINSON

"Hope" is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops - at all

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm

I've heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest sea
Yet - never - in extremity
It asked a crumb - of me.

ABCBCDCDEFFF

Guess that Poem

100

What type of poem is this?

“The Old Pond” by Matsuo Bashō

An old silent pond

A frog jumps into the pond—

Splash! Silence again.

Haiku

200

What kind of poem is this?

LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI - JOHN KEATS

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,

       Alone and palely loitering?

The sedge has withered from the lake,

       And no birds sing.

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,

       So haggard and so woe-begone?

The squirrel’s granary is full,

       And the harvest’s done.

Ballad

300

What kind of poem is this?

“Over the Wintry” by Natsume Sōseki

Over the wintry

Forest, winds howl in rage

With no leaves to blow.

Haiku

400

What kind of poem is this?

There once was a man from Nantucket,

Who kept all his cash in a bucket.

But his daughter, named Nan,

Ran away with a man,

And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

Limerick

500

What kind of poem is this?

A RED, RED ROSE - ROBERT BURNS

“O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune”

Ballad