4. How do you figure out the tone in the poem, especially in the last stanza?

CHAPTER IV
KINDS OF POETRY : FORM

Basic Competence : Understand various form of poetry

Indicators : Identify kinds of poetry based on its form

Materials :

1.Acrostic Poetry:

In Acrostic poems, the first letters of each line are aligned vertically to form a word.
The word often is the subject of the poem.

L oves to play on the computer V icious little gremlins

A lways humorous I infecting vital organs

U nique in every way R aging through our system

R unning, jumping, tumbling at gym U tterly, appalingly, absolutely awful

E xceptionally bright L earner S hould have updated the virus checker

2. Cinquain:

Cinquain poems are five lines long with a certain number of syllables or words in
each. Cinquain poems do not rhyme. There are many ways to write cinquain poems. Here is
an example of one cinquain pattern.

Line 1: Title - one word or two syllables

Line 2: Description or example of the title - 2 words or four syllables
Line 3: Action about the title - a 3 word phrase or six syllables
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Line 4: a 4 word phrase describing a feeling about the title or 8 syllables
Line 5: Synonym for the title - one word - 2 syllables

Line 1: Panther

Line 2: Sleek, graceful

Line 3: Running, hiding, emerging
Line 4: Happy to be free
Line 5: Cat

3.Limericks:

A limerick is a funny little poem containing five lines. The last words of the first,
second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other (A) and the last words of the third and fourth
lines rhyme with each other so the pattern is AABBA. Here is an example of a limerick:

1. There once was a girl named Cheryl (A)

2. Who dreamed she was in great peril (A)
3. She awoke wtth a fright B)
4. When she discovered the sight (B)
5. The “monster” was just a small squirrel. (A)

4. Haiku:

A form of centuries old Japanese poetry that consists of seventeen syllables and has
nature as its subject or theme. Haiku is very short and has a 5-7-5 syllable structure with 5
syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line, and 5 syllables in the third line. With
just a couple of words, haiku poetry conveys emotion. It suggests that the reader look and
listen to the world. This poetry was created by a famous writer named Issa. He had a very sad
life. His mother died when he was two and his own four children all died before they were a
year old. As a writer and poet, this sadness, loneliness and compassion helped him be more
sensitive to everything around him. Issa took the time to listen and enjoy the beauty he found

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as he heard crickets chirp and as he gazed at the skies. Issa saw the beauty of the natural
world around him; he valued every living thing, even insects, and wanted to share his love of
nature through his haiku. Haiku requires you to observe! Here is an example of haiku:

As I lay and gaze Vast, black and savage

Blue skies and white clouds The thunderstorm approaches
Billowing high above me Looming disaster

5.Shape Poetry:

Shape poems form a picture of the topic or follows the contour of a shape that is
suggested by the topic. For example:

6.Ballads

Ballads are stories told in verse-often stories of romantic or lurid sort. Ballads are still
written today , especially in the form of popular song. It takes many form. A popular one is
the four line stanza in which the rhyme scheme ABXB(the third line X, need not rhyme or
may rhyme with A :

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 The winter moon had tipped and spilled

Its shadow on the lawn

When farmer Owen woke to find

His only daughter’ s gone

She had taken all the clothes she had

Against the biting cold

And in the note to him she wrote

“I’ve taken all your gold”.

7. Sonnet

This kind of poetry consists of 14 lines, it must be written in one of various standard
rhyme scheme that is A-B-A-B-C-D-C-D-E-F-E-F-G_G.

William Shakespeare (ca. 1564-1616)

Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year thou mayst in me Behold

1That time of year thou mayst in me behold (A)

2When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang(B)

3Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,(A)

4Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.(B)

5In me thou see'st the twilight of such day(C)

6As after sunset fadeth in the west,(D)

7Which by and by black night doth take away,(C)

8Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.(D)

9In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire(E)

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 10That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,(F)

11As the death-bed whereon it must expire,(E)

12Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by.(F)

13This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,(G)

14To love that well which thou must leave ere long.(G)

Assignment :

Write your own limerick, Haiku, Cinquan, and sonnet, it must be very enjoyable………

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