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HAIKU
17 syllables
3 lines (5/7/5)
no rhyme
about nature
THE ROSE
The red blossom bends
and drips its dew to the ground.
Like a tear it falls
TANKA
31 syllables
5 lines (5/7/5/7/7)
no rhyme
anti-haikus
TANKA #1
Beautiful mountains
Rivers with cold, cold water.
White cold snow on rocks
Trees over the place with frost
White sparkly snow everywhere.
CONCRETE
no set rhythm
no rhyme scheme
makes a picture of the poem’s subject
ABECEDARIAN
ABC poem
alphabetical (forward or backward) either
by line, word, or phrase
ZERO YOKUM
Zero Yokum, xylophonist, was virtually
uneducated
thought Schoenberg ridiculous
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quoted Pleasance on "new music"
loved
Katelby
jeered Ives
hated Ginastera
found even Debussey's chords blatantly avant-
garde
—Truman Hayes
HALLOWEEN
Aliens
Monsters
Boo
No more Bunnies
Costume
Pumpkins
Dragons
Qurious
Existing
Roasters
Fall is when Halloween is
Scary
Ghost
The Tar Ghost
Haunted Houses
Ugly Things
I Dress up as a Skeleton
Vampires
Jack-O-Lanterns
Witches
Korks are in Frankenstein's X-tra Ghost
Head
You might see a
Lots of Monsters
Zombie
OKO
-Justus
BLANK VERSE
HAS rhythm
NO rhyme
STILL I RISE
You may write me down in history Out of the huts of history's
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt shame
But still, like dust, I'll rise. I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom? I rise
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Pumping in my living room. Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Just like moons and like suns,
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
With the certainty of tides, I rise
Just like hopes springing high, Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
Still I'll rise. I rise
Did you want to see me broken? Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
Bowed head and lowered eyes? I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
I rise
I rise
Does my haughtiness offend you? I rise.
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines - Maya Angelou
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
FREE VERSE
NO rhythm
NO rhyme
Blind Justice - Tupac Shakur
excuse me but lady liberty needs glasses
and so does mrs justice by her side
both the broads r blind as bats
stumbling thru the system
justice bumbed into mutulu and
trippin on geronimo pratt
but stepped right over oliver
and his crooked partner ronnie
justice stubbed her big toe on mandela
and liberty was misquoted by the indians
slavery was a learning phase
forgotten with out a verdict
while justice is on a rampage
4 endangered surviving black males
i mean really if anyone really valued life
and cared about the masses
theyd take em both 2 pen optical
and get 2 pair of glasses
LYRICAL
HAS rhythm AND rhyme
can be sung
often repeats a “chorus”
As I Wandered Like A Cloud
I WANDERED lonely as a cloud The waves beside them danced; but
That floats on high o'er vales and hills, they
When all at once I saw a crowd, Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A host, of golden daffodils; A poet could not but be gay,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, In such a jocund company:
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
Continuous as the stars that shine What wealth the show to me had
And twinkle on the milky way, brought:
They stretched in never-ending line For oft, when on my
Along the margin of a bay: couch I lie
10 Ten thousand saw I at a glance, In vacant or in pensive mood, 20
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
- William Wordsworth
CINQUAIN
22 syllables
5 lines (2 noun/4 adjective/6 action/8
effect/2 synonym)
Example
angels
kind beyond words
they protect and forgive
and make feelings of blissfulness
cherubim
- Erin Holbrook
DIAMANTE
diamond shape
7 lines (1 noun/2 adjectives/3 “ing” words
for line 1/4 descriptive words: 2 for line 1
and 2 for line 7/3 “ing” for line 7/2
adjectives for line 7/1 antonym for line 1)
Example
Rain
humid, damp
refreshing, dripping, splattering
wet, slippery, cold, slushy
sliding, melting, freezing
frigid, icy
Snow
ETHEREE
20 lines - #1=1 syllable, #2=2 syllables . . .
#10-11=10 syllables ea., #12=9syllables . . .
#20=1syllable
BALLAD
A longer poem honoring someone
Casey at the Bat - Ernest L. Thayer
for Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the
The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day,
bat.
There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to
into his place,
play.
there was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile lit
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the
Casey's face.
same,
And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly
A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
A straggling few got up to go in deep despair.
doffed his hat,
no stranger in the crowd could doubt
The rest clung to that hope which springs eternal in the
t'was Casey at the bat.
human breast.
Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his
They thought, "if only Casey could but get a whack at
that. hands with dirt.
Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped
We'd put up even money now, with Casey at the bat."
them on his shirt.
But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake;
Then, while the writhing pitcher ground the ball
and the former was a hoodoo, while the latter was a
into his hip,
cake.
defiance flashed in Casey's eye, a sneer curled
So upon that stricken multitude, grim melancholy sat;
for there seemed but little chance of Casey getting to the Casey's lip.
And now the leather-covered sphere came
bat.
hurtling through the air,
But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all.
and Casey stood a-watching it in haughty
And Blake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball.
grandeur there.
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded
And when the dust had lifted,
and men saw what had
sped --
occurred,
there was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging "That ain't my style," said Casey.
"Strike one!"
the umpire said.
third.
Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a From the benches, black with people, there went
up a muffled roar,
lusty yell;
like the beating of the storm waves on a stern and
it rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;
it pounded through on the mountain and recoiled upon
the flat;
EPIC
very long, very old poems dealing with
superheroes
DRAMATIC
A poem with characters, dialogue, and a
plot – but not as long as an epic
LIMERICK
5 lines
specific rhythm
AABBA rhyme scheme
usually raunchy
ITALIAN SONNET
An octet (8) that has a problem
followed by a sestet (6) that offers the
solution
no rhythm
ABBAABBA CDECDE rhyme scheme
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, (a)
Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year! (b)
My hasting days fly on with full career, (b)
But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. (a)
Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, (a)
That I to manhood am arrived so near, (b)
And inward ripeness doth much less appear, (b)
That some more timely-happy spirits indu'th. (a)
Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, (c)
It shall be still in strictest measure even (d)
To that same lot, however mean or high, (e)
Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven. (d)
All is, if I have grace to use it so, (c)
As ever in my great Task-master's eye. (e)
SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET
Three quatrains (4) and a couplet (2)
uses iambic pentameter (ten syllables per
line)
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme
Sonnet XVIII
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
SESTINA
Six sestets (6) and a triplet (3)
uses iambic pentameter
no rhyme
reuses last word in each line of the first
stanza in the following pattern: 615243,
364125, 532614, 451362, 246531, 25/43/61
The Concord Art Association Regrets
-Pam White
Your entry was not accepted. We regret
it wasn't (enough for us), a work of love.
We liked many of the colors on the whole
but the mass was just something unrelated
to the rest of our show. We hope your work
will have a bright future in another place.
We remember last year you tried to place
another photograph and it was also with regret
we turned you down. Though for that particular work
we found nothing about it (no one could) to love.
It was obscure and a little upsetting in relation
to the rest of our show which we look on as a whole.