Poetry
Workshop
Poetry is a way to put your feelings
or expression into words. Poetry has
Poems can be...
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Rhyming
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Structured
Rhyming Poems...
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Rhyme
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May have a pattern
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Has a rhythm
Poetry
Vocabulary
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Rhythm
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Punctuation
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Stanzas
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Refrain
Rhythm
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Poems with rhythm usually contain
rhyming words at the ends of lines
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Specific syllables are stressed
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The rhyming follows a pattern (i.e. AB,
ABC, ect.)
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Rhyming dictionaries are helpful to create
rhythm
At War with Wood
An apple fell from a tree And hit poor me.
Offended by this attack, I hit right back.
So I broke my left hand, And I broke my right knee, But I taught that darn tree Never to mess with me!
By Dean Koontz
I Did a Nutty Somersault
I did a nutty somersault And landed with a thump. I struggled to my feet again But tumbled on my rump. I tried to keep my balance But invariably fell,
And every time I toppled I let out another yell.
Punctuation
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Is used to show the reader how to read
the poem
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May not have any punctuation
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May have commas, periods, question
marks, and exclamation points
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Needs to be consistent
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Can help a reader read the poem correctly
Souvenir
I bring back a shell so I can always hear
the music of the ocean in my ear:
then I feel again the grains of sand
trickle sun-warm through my hand
the sea gulls dip and swoop and cry
as they dive for fish then climb the sky
the sailboats race with wings spread wide
as the wind spins them round and they glide ride glide
my lips taste a crust of salty foam
and sandpipers skitter and crabs scuttle home
while I keep the shell so I can always hear
the music of the ocean when I hold it to my ear.
Stanzas
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A divided section with a group of lines
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A format chosen by the poet
Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too
Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too Went for a riding in a flying shoe. “Hooray!”
“What Fun!”
“It’s time we flew!”
Said Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too.
Ickle was captain, Pickle was crew And Tickle served coffee and
mulligan stew As higher
And higher
And higher they flew,
Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too.
Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too, Over the sun and beyond the blue. “Hold on!”
“Stay in!”
“I hope we do!”
Cried Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too.
Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too Never returned to the world they
knew, And nobody Knows what’s Happened to
Dear Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too.
Refrain
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Repetitive line found throughout the
poem
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Is usually found in the same place in each
stanza
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me At All
Shadows on the wall Noises down the hall
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Bad dogs barking loud Big ghosts in a cloud
Life doesn’t frighten me at all
Mean old Mother Goose Lions on the loose
They don’t frighten me at all
Dragons breathing flame On my counterpane
That doesn’t frighten me at all.
I go boo
Make them shoo I make fun
Way they run I won’t cry So they fly I just smile They go wild
Life doesn’t frighten me at all.
Structured Poems...
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Follow a particular structure
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May rhyme
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May have a rhythm
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May have a structure
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May have a pattern
Poetry
Vocabulary
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Cinquain
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Haiku
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Shape
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Sonnet
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Limerick
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Acrostic
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Onomatopoeia
Cinquain
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Cinquain is French for “group of five”
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Each line has a specific number of
syllables
Joy comes As a light craft
Darting on the surface Of the sea, then dropping
anchor To stay.
By Eve Merriam
Friendship Understanding
Talking, caring, sharing Taking and giving all at once
Haiku
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Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry
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Haikus are meant to be simple yet
profound.
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Each poem contains only three lines with
specific amounts of syllables
Line 1= 5 syllables
Old silent pond…
A frog jumps into the pond Splash! Silent again.
By Basho
Silence around us
Our watchful eyes hear the world
Hands do the talking
Shape
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Poems written into a specific shape.
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May contain rhyming words.
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The subject of the poem correlates to the
I DO NOT KNOW
AT ALL HOW I GOT STUCK
INSIDE THIS PIECE OF PIE AND 1’M UNSURE HOW TO BEGIN TO GET OUT
OF THE FIX I’M IN. THIS TRIANGLE IS SIMPLY NOT AN ENTERTAINING SORT SO SPOT SO I CAN SAY WITHOUT A DOUBT I’D LIKE TO LEAVE AND WOW!...
Sonnet
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Come in two types:
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Shakespearean (English)
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Petrarchan (Italian)
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Contains exactly 14 lines.
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Poem is broken into 3 quatrains (stanzas
Sonnet
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Each stanza has a specific rhyming
pattern:
Bluebeard
This door you might not open, and you did; So enter now, and see for what slight thing
You are betrayed. . . . Here is no treasure hid, No cauldron, no clear crystal mirroring
The sought-for truth, no heads of women slain For greed like yours, no writhings of distress, But only what you see. . . . Look yet again– An empty room, cobwebbed and comfortless. Yet this alone out of my life I kept
Unto myself, lest any know me quite;
And you did so profane me when you crept Unto the threshold of this room to-night That I must never more behold your face. This now is yours. I seek another place.
Limerick
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Often humerous
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Contains 5 lines with a particular
A chameleon, when he’s feeling blue
Can alter his glum point of view
By changing his hue To a color that’s new
I’d like to do that wouldn’t you?
By Eve Mirriam
My beard grows down to my toes
I never wears no clothes I wrap my hair
Around my bare
And down the road I goes.
Acrostic
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Poem where the initial letter of each lines
spells a word vertically.
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The subject of the poem related to
Friends, best friends
Really are
Interested in
Everything about you and
Never ever
Demand more than you can give.
Curious, elegant
Animals that are both
Tiresome and
Smart beyond words
Onomatopoeia
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Words that express sounds such
as “crash”, “boom”, “bang”.
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Comic books often use
The Fourth Oh CRASH! My BASH! It’s BANG! The ZANG! Fourth WHOOSH! Of BAROOOM! July WHEW!
Bake a Cake
cake tins clatter and bang wooden spoons tap, tap, tap beat butter and sugar together cream, creamy, creamier
softly sift self-raising flour
crack an egg, empty contents, splat gurgle milk into the mix
hand-held egg-beater whirring bake the cake for an hour
lick the bowl, rinse and wash slosh, splash water on the floor tip hot cake onto rack to cool pipe icing and whipped cream plonk strawberries round edge yummy, kids say to their mummy
Alliteration
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A group of words that start with
the same letter or sound.
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Tongue Twisters are always
Apple Pie
Auburn Andre,
affable and attractive
although ate apple-pie amply, avidly asked additional
amounts.
By Koyel Mirta
Poetry
Proses and poems Pictured prevail
Emotions emancipated Feelings of frail
Stances and stanzas Words weaponry
Therapeutic tensions Designated decree
Odes of oration
Verses verily victorious Whimsical writes
Grandeur of glorious
Free Verse Poems...
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Do not rhyme
Lazy Jane Lazy Lazy Lazy Lazy Jane
Wants a drink of water So she waits
And waits And waits
For it To rain.
By Shel Silverstein
MAUI MIST
The mist of Maui
caresses me with a thousand celestial fingertips
Massaging my senses Renewing my spirit Refreshing my soul
In a wave of contentment No other place I've seen rivals it's charm and beauty
Soft trade winds through the palm trees
The waves crystal blue breaking on the shore
It is a tropical treasure Rekindled in my mind Forevermore.
Old lady farmer
Scrapped the moistened clay with her handmaid bolo
Dug a medium whole for two with her tireless arms
While setting the healthy seedlings with a smile
Her being patient, humble and old a lady
Bore the passion of a lone bread winner
To a growing family of eight With banana leaves in her hand
By Edgar Rendon Eslit
I Dream'd in a Dream
I DREAM’D in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole rest of the earth,
I drean’d that was the new city of Friends
Nothing was greater there that the quality of robust love, it led to the rest,
It was seen every hour in the actions of the men in that city And in all their looks and
words.
Germs
Forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,
The ones known, and the ones unknown, the ones on the stars, The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped,
Wonders as of those countries, the soil, trees, cities, inhabitants, whatever they may be,
Splendid suns, the moons and rings, the countless combinations and effects,
Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for a handful of space, which I extend my arm and
half enclose with my hand,
That containing the start of each and all, the virtue, the germs of all.
