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Page # Title and Description
1
Cover Page
2
Table of Contents
3 Poetry Styles Handout for Students: Cover Page
4 Poetry Styles Handout for Students: Page 1
5 Poetry Styles Handout for Students: Page 2
6 Poems to Analyze: Cover Page
7 Poems to Analyze: Emily Dickinson & John Donne
8 Poems to Analyze: William Shakespeare
9 Poems to Analyze: Edgar Allan Poe
10 Poems to Analyze: Mother Goose
11 Poems to Analyze: Haiku & Limerick
12 Poems to Analyze: Cinquain & Haiku
13 Poems to Analyze: Robert Frost
14 Poems to Analyze: Lewis Carroll
15 Poems to Analyze: Additional Suggestions
16 Self-Assessment Ticket
17-24
Poetry Templates: Diamante, Cinquain, Sonnet, Acrostic, Couplets, etc.
25 Poetry Portfolio Requirements
Save for Poetry Portfolio!!!
Acrostic - Poetry in which certain letters, usually the first in each line, form a word or
message when read in a sequence.
Teacher
Trainer of fresh young minds,
Educator of tomorrow's leaders,
A friendly face every morning,
Challenges students to reach higher,
Helps every child learn new skills,
Eager to see a class pass the test,
Ready to answer every one's questions
Ballad - A poem that tells a story similar to a folktale or legend which often has a
repeated refrain.
Excerpt of “The Mermaid” by Unknown author
Oh the ocean waves may roll,
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloft
And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below
And the land lubbers lay down below…
Cinquain - Poetry with five lines. There are several different kinds but one pattern is as
follows: Line1: A noun; Line2: Two adjectives; Line 3: Three -ing words; Line 4: A phrase;
Line 5: Another word for the noun
Spaghetti
Messy, spicy
Slurping, sliding, falling
Between my plate and mouth
Delicious
Couplet - A couplet has rhyming stanzas made up of two lines.
My Cat
By Molly (at age 5)
I like to play with my cat
He likes to get in a hat.
Diamante – poetry with seven lines, shaped like a diamond. It is similar to the Cinquain.
Lion
Majestic, proud
Roaring, snarling, prowling
Mane, muscle . . . Fleece, fluff
Bleating, leaping, grazing
Meek, gentle
Lamb
Epic - An extensive, serious poem that tells the story about a heroic figure.
Example: the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
Free verse - A poem written that is unrhymed and without any rhythmic pattern.
Haiku - A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five
syllables. It is usually about nature, particularly seasons.
The red blossom bends
and drips its dew to the ground.
Like a tear it falls
Limerick – A 5-lined rhyming poem that is often humorous, mean-spirited, or vulgar.
There once was a fellow named Tim
whose dad never taught him to swim.
He fell off a dock
and sunk like a rock.
And that was the end of him.
Ode - A lengthy lyric poem typically of a serious or meditative nature and having an
elevated style and formal stanza structure.
Except: 624. Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, 5
But being too happy in thine happiness,
That thou, light-wingèd Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease. 10 …
Quatrain - A stanza or poem consisting of four lines. Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme while
having a similar number of syllables.
from Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard")
The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Sonnet (Shakespearean) - A 14-line sonnet consisting of three
quatrains of abab cdcd efef followed by a couplet, gg. Generally
uses iambic pentameter.
Shape - Poetry written in the shape or form of an object.
"I'm nobody! Who are you?"
by Emily Dickinson
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
For whom the bell tolls a poem
(No man is an island) by John Donne
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
Sonnet 130
by William Shakespeare
1. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
2. Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
3. If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
4. If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
5. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
6. But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
7. And in some perfumes is there more delight
8. Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
9. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
10. That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
11. I grant I never saw a goddess go;
12. My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
13. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
14. As any she belied with false compare.
A Dream Within A Dream
by Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow –
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand –
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep -- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
Little Jack Horner by: Mother Goose
Little Jack Horner
Sat in a corner,
Eating of Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb,
And pull'd out a plumb,
And said what a good boy am I.
Hey Diddle Diddle By Mother Goose
Hey diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed,
To see such a craft,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
Haiku
LIMERICK
A Clumsy Young Fellow Named Tim
There once was a fellow named Tim (A) whose dad never taught him to swim. (A) He fell off a dock (B) and sunk like a rock. (B) And that was the end of him. (A)
Cinquain
Tree
Strong, Tall
Swaying, swinging, sighing
Memories of summer
Oak
Fall (Haiku)
Swiftly turning leaves
Set adrift from their birthplace
Always as it was
The wind sweeping down
Releases the captive leaves
A final journey
Autumn brings winter
The beginning of the end
My rebirth assured
- Copyright 2002, by Joseph Rohrbach
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Beautiful Soup
by Lewis Carroll
BEAUTIFUL Soup, so rich and green,
Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop?
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
Beau--ootiful Soo-oop! Beau--ootiful Soo-oop!
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful Soup!
Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish,
Game, or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two Pennyworth only of Beautiful Soup? Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
Beau--ootiful Soo-oop! Beau--ootiful Soo-oop!
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!
Additional Recommended Poems
If you’re looking for more great poems for your students to read, check out the following recommendations. Poems in blue have a hyperlink you can follow.
As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed by Jack Prelutsky
It’s Dark in Here by Shel Silverstein
Crossing the Bar by Lord Alfred Tennyson
O Captain, My Captain by Walt Whitman
Where Did You Come From, Baby Dear? by George MacDonald
The Cow by Robert Louis Stevenson
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou (video of her reading it)
The Dentist and the Crocodile by Roald Dahl
Bee I’m Expecting You by Emily Dickinson
The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
Frodo's Song in Bree by J.R.R. Tolkien
Daddy Fell Into the Pond by Alfred Noyes
1. Did you say the title? ______________________
2. Were you loud enough? __________________
3. Did you speak in a clear manner?
__________________________________________
4. Did you place appropriate emphasis?
__________________________________________
5. Did your reading help your audience better
understand the poem?
__________________________________________
1. Did you say the title? ______________________
2. Were you loud enough? __________________
3. Did you speak in a clear manner?
__________________________________________
4. Did you place appropriate emphasis?
__________________________________________
5. Did your reading help your audience better
understand the poem?
__________________________________________
Line 1: Beginning topic:
Line 2: Two adjectives about beginning topic:
Line 3: Three –ing words about beginning topic:
Line 4: Four nouns or a short phrase linking beginning to ending topic:
Line 5: Three –ing words about ending topic:
Line 6: Two adjectives describing ending topic:
Line 7: Ending topic:
Line 1: Topic
Line 2: Two adjectives about topic
Line 3: Three –ing words about topic
Line 4: A phrase describing the topic
Line 5: Another word for topic
Name_____________________________________Grade___________Date_____________
Limericks are often humorous, mean-spirited, or vulgar.
Limericks consist of five lines. The rhyme scheme is aabba. In other words, Lines
One, Two, and Five all rhyme, and Lines Three and Four rhyme. The rhythm
usually follows this pattern: 8, 8, 5, 5, and 7 syllables.
There once was a fellow named Tim (A)
whose dad never taught him to swim. (A)
He fell off a dock (B)
and sunk like a rock. (B)
And that was the end of him. (A)
Here are some first lines you can use to get you started if you want.
1. There was an unusual boy,
2. There once was a very old dog,
3. A beautiful girl in my town,
4. There was a young woman whose head,
5. Two poets who couldn't agree.
1. _________________________________________________________________ (A)
2. _________________________________________________________________ (A)
3. ____________________________________________________ (B)
4. ____________________________________________________ (B)
5. _________________________________________________________________ (A)
Name____________________________________Grade___________Date_____________
How to write a sonnet Directions:
o Sonnets have 14 lines, 10 syllables in each line, and stresses on every other
syllable.
o Think of a topic for your sonnet.
o On scratch paper, come up with rhyming words to help your poem.
o Finally, start writing out your sonnet on the lines below!
1. ________________________________________________________________ A
2. ________________________________________________________________ B
3. ________________________________________________________________ A
4. ________________________________________________________________ B
5. ________________________________________________________________ C
6. ________________________________________________________________ D
7. ________________________________________________________________ C
8. ________________________________________________________________ D
9. ________________________________________________________________ E
10. ________________________________________________________________ F
11. ________________________________________________________________ E
12. ________________________________________________________________ F
13. ________________________________________________________________ G
14. ________________________________________________________________ G
Name_____________________________________Grade___________Date_____________
An acrostic poem is written so that certain letters begin the first letter of each
line and form a word or message when read in a sequence.
Directions:
o Write a practice acrostic poem using the format below.
o Use the first letter of each line to write a word or phrase that describes the
main word going vertically.
Summer
S_____________________________
U_____________________________
M_____________________________
M_____________________________
E_____________________________
R_____________________________
Name_____________________________________Grade___________Date_____________
Directions:
o Write your own series of couplets on a related topic.
o Must be at least 8 lines long (especially if you’re going to use it for your
Portfolio.
o Remember: a couplet has rhyming stanzas made up of two lines, aa bb cc
dd.
Title: ________________
1. ________________________________________________________________ A
2. ________________________________________________________________ A
3. ________________________________________________________________ B
4. ________________________________________________________________ B
5. ________________________________________________________________ C
6. ________________________________________________________________ C
7. ________________________________________________________________ D
8. ________________________________________________________________ D
Name_____________________________________Grade___________Date_____________
Directions:
o Write your own series of quatrains on a related topic.
o Must be at least 8 lines long (especially if you’re going to use it for your
Portfolio.
o Remember: a quatrain has rhyming stanzas made up of four lines, abab,
cdcd.
Title: ________________
1. ________________________________________________________________ A
2. ________________________________________________________________ B
3. ________________________________________________________________ A
4. ________________________________________________________________ B
5. ________________________________________________________________ C
6. ________________________________________________________________ D
7. ________________________________________________________________ C
8. ________________________________________________________________ D
Name_____________________________________Grade___________Date_____________
Directions:
o Write your own series of haikus on a related topic.
o Must be at least 8 lines long if you’re going to use it for your Portfolio
o Remember: haikus are non-rhyming poems with a set of 5-7-5 syllables and
are often written about nature/the seasons.
Title: ________________
1. ________________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________________
4. ________________________________________________________________
5. ________________________________________________________________
6. ________________________________________________________________
7. ________________________________________________________________
8. ________________________________________________________________
9. ________________________________________________________________
Poetry Portfolio Assessment Guidelines
1—Needs Improvement • 2—Average • 3—Excellent
POETRY PORTFOLIO REQUIREMENTS
Include the following in listed order:
________ Cover page: interesting, well constructed, and relevant to poems
________ All About Me page: free of errors, interesting to read, and relevant to author
________Dedication Page: free of errors and relevant to author
________ Five original, personal poems; five different styles; all poems in proper format
________Separating Page: personal & class poems separated with piece of colored paper
________Class poems in their entirety: 1) Poetry Handout, 2) Dickinson & Donne 3) Sonnet
130, 4) A Dream within a Dream, 5) Mother Goose, 6) Haiku /Limerick 7) Tree /
Invitation, 8) As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed, 9) It’s Dark in Here, 10) Fall
1—Poor • 2—Needs Improvement • 3—Average • 4—Good • 5—Excellent
POETRY PORTFOLIO
_______ Used class time wisely
________ Showed understanding of the different types of poetic formats when writing
________ Used appropriate wording and graphics
________ Used text, grammar, and punctuation properly
________ Showed effort and careful planning for design elements including font attributes, color
choices, and graphics
TOTAL
*Turn in with Poetry Portfolio.
DUE: ________________________________
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