Poetry Prototypes
Created by:Tuck R.
Welcome to my page! This page will teach you the many marvelous types of poetry.
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Limerick-This type of poetry is all ways five lines in a rhyming scheme(order) of "aabba". Believe it or not a limerick is supposed to be humorous,actually "funny". Also (to use a little history) this type of poetry is believed to have started all the way back to the eighteenth century by the Maugie poets of Ireland!
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Cinquain-Like the limerick, a cinquain also is made up of only five lines. However, The first line is only allowed to be one word long! The second line describes the first line. The third mixes it up a little bit. It is basically the action part of the poem. The fourth line is four words describing the feeling and emotion in the poem. On the fifth and final line is the same is the first line which one word that is the title of the poem.
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Couplet-A very popular poetry type,a couplet is one stanza(basically a small piece of a poem)made up of only two lines that rhyme with each other.
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Ballad-One of the older types of poetry, a ballad is a poem that poets use to tell stories. Ballads usually have stanzas consisting of seven or eight lines.
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Epic-An epic is usually very long and descriptive.Epics are usually longer than most poems. Some epics even reach the length of an entire book! Sometimes, these poems are written about war like the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer the famous poet from ancient Greece.
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Free Verse- A free verse poem is what it's name implies, a poem in which the poet basically has no rules or guide lines he or she has to follow. As you can imagine, this is a very popular type of poetry.
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Haiku- A haiku is unique to the other forms of poetry I have discussed on my web page. Unlike most poems, this poem may not have any rhyming sequences. This poem consists of three lines of five,seven and five syllables on each line. A haiku is usually about nature. This form of poetry originated from Japan.
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Alliteration- The term allitertion describes the repitition of initial consenants in words that appear close together. You can have more than one alliteration in each line.
Example- Polly the pretty piece of pumpernickel picks prickly pears preciously.
Examples- clang, boom, kaboom, quack,and moo.
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Personification- The device which poets give human characteristics to abstractions or inanimate objects.
Example- The wind whispered a sad tale into my ear.
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