3. POETRYPOETRY
What is
Poetry?
 A metrical writing or poems.
 a composition in verse
 something suggesting a
poem (as in expressive-
ness, lyricism, or formal
grace)
4. TYPES OF
POETRY
Part A. Narrative Poetry
Narrative poems tell stories in verse. A
number of them are very old and were
originally intended to be recited to au-
diences, such as Homer's "The Iliad"
and "The Odyssey".
Part B. Lyric poetry
Lyric poetry typically describes the poet's
innermost feelings or candid observa-
tions and evokes a musical quality in
its sounds and rhythms.
Lyric poems exhibit an endless variety of
forms.
5. LYRICS POETRY FORMS
Haiku: a lyric, unrhymed poem of Japanese
origin with seventeen syllables divided into three lines. It is
usually on the subject of nature and humans' relationship to
nature. Successful haiku uses metaphor to give us a fresh
and imaginative look at something we may view as quite ordi-
nary.
The moon is a week old -
A dandelion to blow
Scattering star seed. (Ruby Lytle)
Cinquain: a five-line stanza apparently of medieval origin, of-
ten with two, four, six, eight, and two syllables respectively in
the five lines.
Listen...
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall. (Adelaide Crapsey's
"November Night")
Sonnet: a very old form of poetry, having gained prominence
during the Renaissance, but not found much in poetry for chil-
dren. It contains fourteen lines, each line with five iambic feet
(or ten syllables).
Example: "The Children of the Night " by Edwin Arlington
Robinson
6. Limerick: a five-line humorous poem, the first, second,
and fifth lines rhyming and the third and fourth lines
rhyming. It is one of the most popular poetic forms
among children, The fun of the limerick lies in its rol-
licking rhythm and its broad humor.
Imagine a skunk who proposes,
To his true love, surrounded by roses.
It may turn out just fine,
When she falls for his line,
But I wonder if flowers have noses? (Sarah Fanny)
Free Verse: adhering to no predetermined rules, but
usually with its own intricate patterns of rhyme and
rhythm. It requires the same thoughtful choice of
words and rhythmical patterns as the more rigid stan-
za forms.
Example: "My Shadow" from Robert Louis Steven-
son's A Child's Garden of Verses
"Homework! Oh, Homework!" by Jack
Prelutsky
7. Concrete Poetry: The words of a
poem are arranged to form a pic-
torial representation of the poem's
subject.
Example: "Easter Wings " by
George Herbert (1633),
designed to suggest an-
gel wings.
"The Mouse's Tale" by
Lewis Carroll (1865),
from Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland
Online examples of
concrete poetry.
8. ELEMENTS
OF POETRY
ï‚· Rhythm: the music made by the
statements of the poem, which includes the
syllables in the lines. The best method of un-
derstanding this is to read the poem aloud,
and understand the stressed and unstressed
syllables.
ï‚· Stanza: defined as a smaller unit or
group of lines or a paragraph in a poem. A par-
ticular stanza has a specific meter, rhyme
scheme. Based on the number of lines stanzas
are named as couplet (2 lines), tercet (3 lines),
quatrain (4 lines), cinquain (5 lines), sestet (6
lines), septet (7 lines), octave (8 lines).
9. Rhyme: a poem may or
may not have a rhyme.
Rhyme is basically similar
sounding words like ‘cat’ and
‘hat’, ‘close’ and ‘shows’,
‘house’ and ‘mouse’. Free
verse poetry, though, does
not follow this system.
Rhyme Scheme: as a
continuation of rhyme, the
rhyme scheme is also one of
the basic elements of poet-
ry. It is defined as the pattern
of rhyme. It is denoted by al-
phabets like aabb (first line
rhyming with 2nd, 3rd with
4th); abab (1st with 3rd, 2nd
with 4th); abba (1st with 4th,
2nd with 3rd), etc.
10. Theme: this is what the po-
em is all about. The theme of the
poem is the central idea that the po-
et wants to convey. It can be a story,
or a thought, or a description of
something or someone; anything
that the poem is about.
Imagery: imagery is also
one of the important elements of a po-
em. This device is used by the poet for
readers to create an image in their im-
agination. Imagery appeals to all the
five senses.
Example: when the poet de-
scribes, ‘the flower is bright red’, an im-
age of a red flower is immediately creat-
ed in the reader’s mind.
13. Make a short poem about your
name.
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14. Read the poem carefully and
identify the rhyming words.
15. Read the poem. Count the syllables and
label each line based from their rhym-
ing scheme.
16. Draw the image of your favorite pet and
write a short poem about it.
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18. I. Choose the answer from the box and write it
on the space provided.
_______________ 1. The central idea of poem.
_______________ 2. can stand for many things at one time and leads
the reader out of systematic and structured method of looking at
things.
_______________ 3. the music made by the statements of the poem,
which includes the syllables in the lines.
_______________ 4. smaller unit of lines in a poem.
_______________ 5. defined as the pattern of rhyme.
THEME RHYME
RHYME SCHEME STANZA
SYMBOLISM RHYTHM
19. II. Read the poem carefully. Answer the questions below and
write it on the space provided.
Wind On The Hill
BY A. A. MILNE
No one can tell me,
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.
It's flying from somewhere
As fast as it can,
I couldn't keep up with it,
Not if I ran.
But if I stopped holding
The string of my kite,
It would blow with the wind
For a day and a night.
And then when I found it,
Wherever it blew,
I should know that the wind
Had been going there too.
So then I could tell them
Where the wind goes…
But where the wind comes from
Nobody knows
20. 1.How many stanzas are there?
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2. What is the theme of the poem?
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3. How many syllables in every line?
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4. Give the rhyme scheme of the poem.
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5. What are the symbol used in the poem?
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6. What was the poem tells about?
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21. Write a poem with four lines and two stan-
zas in a given title.
My Little House
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23. Find the words in the box, it can be diagonal,
horizontal or vertical. The words that you have found will
be used to answer the statement below. You will write
the word that corresponds to the meaning.
Q U A T R A I N L O
S S W P H S M E O P
E E Y O Y I A O D A
S D H E M E G L O L
T L I N E S E I K A
E O H R W E R T S N
T E R C E T Y I A A
S T A N Z A S K B S
24. 1.______________ this is what the poem is all about.
2. _____________ is basically similar sounding words like
‘cat’ and ‘hat’, ‘close’ and ‘shows’, ‘house’ and ‘mouse’.
3. ____________ appeals to all the five senses.
4. ____________ defined as a smaller unit or group of
lines or a paragraph in a poem.
5. ____________ can be found in the every stanzas.
6. ____________ composed of six lines.
7. ____________ composed of four lines.
8. ____________ a composition in verse.
9. ____________ as in expressiveness, lyricism, or formal
grace).
10. ___________ composed of three lines.
25. Write a simple poem based on the
named of lines stanzas. Have your
own title. Use different title.
Tercet (two stanza)
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