FORMS OF

EXPERIMENTAL
POETRY
ACROSTIC POETRY

The first letter of each line are

aligned vertically to form a word.
The word often is the subject of the
poem.
CINQUIAN

– Poems are 5 lines long with a certain

number of syllables or words in each.
– Rhyme doesn’t exist.
HOW TO WRITE CINQUAIN?

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
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
COUPLET

o It is a pair of lines.
o It has a rhyme.
o It makes up a unit or complete thought.
o It is the easiest of the verse forms.
o It is consists of two lines with an end rhyme.
EXAMPLE OF COUPLET

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

Humpty dumpty had a great fall
EXAMPLE OF COUPLET

All the king’s horses and all the king’s

men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again!
DIAMANTE

oIt is composed of seven lines.

oThe texts forms the shape of diamond.
HOW TO WRITE
DIAMANTE?
DIAMANTE
LIMERICK

oIt is a funny little poem.

oIt is composed of five lines.
oRhyme scheme:
AABBA
A COLD WOMAN

There edge once was a woman ice

She never knew how to be nice
She spent all of her life,
on the edge of a knife,
Cutting herself off from advice
 HAIKU

– Traditional Japanese poem

– Haikai no ku
– meaning: light verse
 HAIKU

– 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.
HAIKU

Issa took time to listen and enjoy the beauty

he found 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.
HOW TO WRITE HAIKU?

FIRST LINE: 5 syllables

SECOND LINE: 7 syllables
THIRD LINE: 5 syllables
TANKA

– It is consists of 31 syllables (5-7-5-7-7)

– THEME: love, nature, seasons, and
friendship
BEACH

Pebbles on the beach

Pierce through our heels as we walk
A mild price to pay
For the subject we subject
It to buy littering waste.
NAME POEMS

CLERIHEW
NAME LIMERICK
CLERIHEW

– It is invented by EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY

– It is a simple rhymed verse.
– It contains a humorous reference to a famous
person.
– RHYME SCHEME:
AABB
CLERIHEW

– The first line is the name of the poem’s

subject, usually a famous person put in an
absurd light.
– The rhymes are often forced.
SOUND WORDS

– The pronunciation of some words

– like boom, hiss, and buzz – echo
their meanings. Such words are
said to be onomatopoeic.
DOODLE

– It is an unfocused or unconscious drawing

made while a person’s attention is otherwise
occupied.
– It is a simple drawing that can have a
concrete representational meaning or may
just be an abstract shapes
CONCRETE POEM

–It acts out the meaning of a

word.
ALPHABET POEM

Begin your first word with A,

your second with B, and so on,
until you come to Z.
Again I’m sitting with pen in my hand and
paper in front of me,
Breaking all the doors, trying to set my
feelings free.
Carefully I’m choosing the words to write.
Don’t want to keep anything inside
Everything inside me I want to say.
For so long I’ve been trying day after day
Guessed it’s easy, but it’s not in any way
How hard I tried to tell you
In every way, but I couldn’t do so.
Just simple words I have to write,
Kinda magical words that I’ll make everything right
Love you deeply from the bottom of my heart
My life means nothing when we’re apart
No one but you can make me feel that complete.
Ooh, my love we are meant to be; that’s our fate.
Please stay with me for always and forever.
Quit anything, but leave me never.
Right inside my heart you will always be.
So happy I feel when you are with me.
To you I hope to be always near.
Unique is the way along you I feel.
Very happy, flying without wings
What a joy to my heart your touch brings.
X-tremely perfect I feel near you.
Yes, my love, that’s what I want you to know.
Zillions of words I have in my heart to say, and
all of them are true.
TYPOGRAPHY

-It is often thought in its practical

form, as text on a web page or printed
material.
-A designer may look at typography
in the way that it will impact their
design, considering aspects such as
spacing, leading, weight and size.
GENRE-CROSSING TEXTS
(HYBRID GENRE)
It is a genre in fiction that blends
themes and elements from two or
more different genres
JANET KAPLAN
LITTLE THEORY
A machine named
Universe knew about
Itself what it knew at
Present, nothing more.
Away it skipped,
Blowing bubbles and
Careful not to step on
Father’s clock.