5 Types of Poetry
- Couplet
- Acrostic
- Haiku
- Limerick
- Sonnet
Couplet
Must have two lines that rhyme eg.
Help us for we a stuck
We are completely out of luck
or
So long as men can breath or eyes can see
So long lives this and this gives lives to thee
- William Shakespeare
Acrostic
A poem in which certain letters of the lines, usually the first letters,
form a word or message relating to the subject eg.
form a word or message relating to the subject eg.
Most wonderful person in the world
Unique in every way possibly
My mum is the best of them all
Haiku
A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five,
traditionally evoking images of the natural world eg.
traditionally evoking images of the natural world eg.
I went to the beach
While I was in the water
And I saw a whale
Limericks
A humorous, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming eg.
There was a young man from Capetown
Who suffered a nervous breakdown
He didn't get the joke
So he went for a smoke
And then took a job as a clown
Sonnet
A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes,
in English typically having ten syllables per line
in English typically having ten syllables per line
