12 Types of Poetry

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12 Types of Poetry
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Limerick

• A five line poem that is almost always humorous.
  It has an AABBA pattern.

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Cinquain

• A five line poetic form intended to show emotion.
  Its pattern creates the shape of a Christmas
  tree. 2, 4, 6, 8, 2.

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Diamante

• An unrhymed poetic form named for its shape. It
  contains nouns, adjectives, verbs.

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Haiku

• Japanese poetic form consisting of three lines
  containing 17 syllables. It has a 5, 7, 5 pattern.

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Acrostic

• Poetic style in which the topic or title is
  written vertically. The poet then uses the
  letters in the title to develop each line of
  poetry. Each line in the poem describes the
  topic.

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Name Poem

• A poem in which one word of each letter of a
  persons name or proper noun is used as the
  initial letter for one line of the poem.

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Concrete Poem (Poetry Patterns)

• Poems written in the shape of the poems main
  idea. They do not have to rhyme.

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Quatrains

• Four line poems that may follow any one of four
  different rhyme patterns. (AABB, ABAB, ABBA, ABCB)

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ABC Poem

• A poem written in short form and expresses strong
  emotion. The initial letters of the beginning
  words in each line are written alphabetically.

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Alliteration

• A poem written with the repetition of a sound in
  two or more neighboring words. It is the
  repeated use of an accented syllable that has the
  same beginning sound.

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Sound poem

• A poem that uses onomatopoeia to show the sounds
  that we hear all the time. Onomatopoeia is the
  use of words that sound like the noise they name.

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Tanka poem

• Oriental poem much like haiku, except that it has
  5 lines with a 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 pattern. 31
  syllables.