Basic forms of poetry and what they are.

1. AN INTRODUCTION TO
POETRY
By Jane Doe

2. WHAT IS POETRY?

3. POETIC FORMS
 Haiku
 Sonnet
 Cinquain
 Quatrain
 Acrostic

4.  Haiku is a Japanese form of
poetry.
 It is written with a total of 17
syllables
 The format is 5/7/5
Listen to the sample…
HAIKU

5.  The sonnet is a form that has 14
lines and uses end rhyme.
 Some sonnets are written in this
format: octet plus a sestet; others are
written in three quatrains and a
rhyming couplet-(two lines that rhyme).
 Shakespeare was one of the more
famous sonnet writers.
THE SONNET

6.  Cinquain Poetry is made up
of five, usually unrhymed, lines.
 The lines are written with
two, four, six, eight and two
syllables, respectively.
CINQUAIN
Mother:
Gentle woman,
Always giving, loving;
Inspiration, guidance, support;
Mother.

7.  Like its name implies, the
quatrain is a poem made up of
four rhyming lines.
 The usual rhyme scheme for
this poem is abab.
 The Butterfly & the Bee
consists of one quatrain with the
abab rhyme scheme, one with acac
and a final quatrain with bdbd.
QUATRAIN
1. Methought I heard a butterfly a
2. Say to a labouring bee: b
3. "Thou hast no colours of the sky a
4. On painted wings like me.“ b
1. "Poor child of vanity! those dyes, a
2. And colours bright and rare,“ c
3. With mild reproof, the bee replies, a
4. "Are all beneath my care. c
1. "Content I toil from morn to eve, b
2. And scorning idleness, d
3. To tribes of gaudy sloth I leave b
4. The vanity of dress.“ d
William Lisle Bowles.

8. QUESTIONS?