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Giving Words

Words and Verse

-Form-

Villanelle: A poem with six stanzas. The first five stanzas have three lines with a rhyme scheme of aba and the final stanza has four lines with a rhyme scheme of abaa.

Sonnet: A poem which contains 14 lines each of which contains 10 syllables. A Sonnet is usually written in a particular meter (iambic pentameter) and have a rhyme scheme of abab cded efef gg.

Ode: An elaborate lyric poem celebrating or praising an object or concept.

Limerick: A five line poem with structure and meter that lines 1, 2 and 5 have three beats and a rhyme scheme of aa bb a and lines 3 and 4 contain two beats that rhyme.

Haiku: A poem that presents an image, usually something in nature consisting of 17 syllables and made up of three lines. Counting the syllables five in the the first line, seven in the second line and 5 in the third line.

Free Verse: A poem that the verse can not be described in terms of meter, and may be irregular or sporadic.

Epitaph: A poem written to be inscribed on a tomb stone or grave marker.

Epistle: A poem in the form of a letter that addresses a specific person but extends its message to the world in general.

Epic: A long narrative poem usually on a mythological, historical or religious topic.

Elegy: A solemn dignified poem usually on a mythological, historical or religious topic.

Concrete: A way of structuring words so that they form a visual representation of their meaning.

Cinquain: A poem with five lines structured in such a way that the first line contain 2 syllables, the second line contains 4 syllables, the third line contains 6 syllables, the fourth line contains 8 syllables, and the fifth line contains 2 syllables. (Can be multiple sets of five lines done this way.)

Ballad: A brief narrative poem that is constructed in four line stanzas and has a rhyme pattern of the second and fourth lines.

Acrostic: A poem in which the letters of the subject word are written vertically down and the thoughts on the subject are written horizontally next to each letter so that each phrase or sentence begins with a letter of the subject word.

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