Types of Poetry

Types of Poetry
by denise kenzie, chloe andrea

1. Haiku :

Is a set of three. Haiku is a short, unrhymed poem. The poems are 3 lines with 5-7-5 pattern. 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line, and 5 syllables in the third line.
Sample of Haiku :

A big silent pond

A frog jumps into the pond

Splash! Silence again

2. Acrostic :

Is a poem where first, last, or other letters in the line spell out a particular word or phrase. The most common and simple form of a acrostic poem is where the first letters of each line spell out the word or phrase.
Sample of acrostic poem :

Elephants didn’t go to school

Donkeys didn’t have to learn math

Urchins didn’t have to do exams

Can i just ask,

Are we animal like?

That we deny knowledge

I’m just saying that

Our life depends on what we do

Now

3. Concrete  :

Is a poem that forms a picture which follows the contours of a shape.

Sample of a concrete poem :

    Good  people
      can’t die, Because kindness is stronger
  than  death. Only   people with a  heart of
  gold, Is able to sacrifice themselves, Just to
     let others live. Only people with a heart
                 of gold, Is able to love with
                         no exception.
                               <3

Good people can’t die, because kindness is stronger than death. Only people with a heart of gold, is able to sacrifice themselves, just to let others live. Only people with a heart of gold, is able to love, with no exception.

4. Couplets :

Using 4-8 couplets, which can be 8-16 lines, it’s focused on one thing.

Couplets are 2 lines working as a unit, whether they comprise a single stanza or part of a larger stanza. Most couplets rhyme a-a, but don’t have to.
Sample of a couplets :

They’re real

They say mermaids don’t exist

They say fairies don’t exist

Then please explain to me

Because i saw one right in front of me

Same thing about fairies

Saw them last week hovering over trees

They never understand

They would never understand

Don’t ever say it’s something I hallucinated to achieve

Because  they only appear in front of those who believe

5. Spine :

Take the title of your favorite book (or movie or song) that is 5 words (or more) long

and use each of the words as the beginning of a line in your instant poem.
Sample of a spine poem:

We are clearly not a thing anymore
Are you okay with this?
Never saw you look so desperate
Ever regret for what happened?
Getting me was just your luck, we’re
Back to be strangers
Together again is never an option

6. Write a list

1.     How to write “write a list” poem

-       start by thinking of an interesting place anywhere that has an unusual assortment of things in it to write about

(example : “what’s in the box?” , “what’s under my bed?”)

you can write your own and make that your opening line

-       the rest of the poem is a list of the items you find there

 Sample of a write a list poem :

What’s in the ethic

One bag of golf sticks

A big box of expired cereal

Lots of boxes of old books

Long lost childhood toys

Gum wrappers

Dusty old shoes

Stained board games

Broken luggage

7. Septet

1.     Content in a septet poem

Line 1 : three syllables

Line 2 : five syllables

Line 3 : seven syllables

Line 4 : nine syllables

Line 5 : seven syllables

Line 6 : five syllables

Line 7 : three syllables

  Sample of a septet poem :

Computer

Sleek and black and fast

Open Internet highway

Shrinks the world to a very small place

Point and click and point and click

The site fills the screen

Home online

8. Tanka poem

1.     Content in tanka poem

Line 1 : five syllables

Line 2 : seven syllables

Line 3 : five syllables

Line 4 : seven syllables

Line 5 : seven syllables

2.     Sample of tanka poem

Beautiful mountains

Rivers with cold, cold water

White cold snow on rocks

Trees over the place with frost

White sparkly snow everywhere

9. Sonnet

1.     Types of Sonnet

-       Italian

-       Shakespearean

-       Spenserian

-       Miltonic

-       Terza rima

-       Curtal

 Sample of a Shakespearean sonnet :

From fairest creatures we desire increase,

That thereby beauty’s rose might never die.

But as the riper should by time decrease,

His tender heir might bear his memory:

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,

Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel,

Making a famine where abudance lies,

Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.

Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament

And only herald to the gaudy spring,

Within thine own bud buriest thy content

And, tender churl, mak’st waste in niggarding

Pity the world, or else this glutton be,

To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee…

10. Limerick

1.     Limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines :

first, second, and fifth lines must have 7 to 10 syllables

third and fourth lines must have 5 to 7 syllables

2.     Sample of limerick poem

There was an old man with a beard

Who said, ‘it is just as I feared!’

Two owls and a hen

Four larks and a wren

Have all built their nests in my beard!

        Example:

         Good                  people

      can’t die, Because kindness is stronger

  than  death. Only   people with a  heart of

  gold, Is able to sacrifice themselves, Just to

     let others live. Only people with a heart

                 of gold, is able to love with

                         no exception.

                               <3

Analysis of Concrete (by Denise Kenzie) :

Good people can’t die, because kindness is stronger than death. Only people with a heart of gold, is able to sacrifice themselves, just to let others live. Only people with a heart of gold, is able to love, with no exception.

The poem I analyse is about the concrete poem. This poem is called a concrete poem because the words are arranged into a picture or a shape. In this poem the shape is heart. The title of the poem is Good people. The writer decided to make it into a shape of a heart because the content about the poem is about kindness, and kindness related to the heart. The writer used poetic device in this poem. Poetic device which is used by the writer inside this poem is repetition. The repetition is the statement “Only people with a heart of gold.” This statement is stated twice in the poem. This statement gives stress or suppression because it shows that only people with kind heart are able to sacrifice themselves and love with no exception. Only people with the kind heart can put others needs above their needs. Kindness is stronger than death means that kindness won over bad things or bad actions. It shows that the writer is sure that only people with a heart of gold can do things like that. The writer also includes metaphor in the same statement which is “Only people with a heart of gold.” The writer wrote gold instead of pure or kind to make it more beautiful and more meaningful. The writer also uses symbol in this poem. The symbol used is <3 it means kiss or love. It is one of an emoji from the phone which are used with people to express love.

All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now,

and after this next one just a dozen

to launch a little ship on love's storm-tossed seas,

then only ten more left like rows of beans.

How easily it goes unless you get Elizabethan

and insist the iambic bongos must be played

and rhymes positioned at the ends of lines,

one for every station of the cross.

But hang on here while we make the turn

into the final six where all will be resolved,

where longing and heartache will find an end,

where Laura will tell Petrarch to put down his pen,

take off those crazy medieval tights,

blow out the lights, and come at last to bed.

Analysis of sonnet (by Chloe Andrea) :

A sonnet poem is a 14 lines long poem and has 10 syllables. Sonnet is made up of an octave and a sestet. It has a specific rhyme scheme, volta, and specific turn.The word sonnet is from an Italian word “sonetto”, which means a “little song”. Sonnet is popular among different types of poet because it has a great adaptability to different purposes requirements. There is no set end rhyme scheme and the iambic pentameter beat occurs in only two lines, instead of all fourteen. Alliteration is used in line three “to launch a little ship on love’s storm-tossed seas” and anaphora, the repetition of words and phrases occurs in line 2,6-7, and 11-12. Simile occurs in line 4 “row of beans” and metaphor in line 13 “crazy medieval tights”. The first line complete in sense and syllable which is pure irony. Line 7 introduces the tradition of rhyming, common to all types of sonnet : Petrarchan (abbaabbaacdecde), Shakespearean (ababcdcdefefgg), or Spenserian (ababbcbccdcdee). Line 8 makes up the octave and line 9 starts with sestet. Sestet is the last 6 lines of a sonnet.