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Free Verse - a poem that seems to follow no rules, and has no set pattern.
hist whist
little ghostthings
tip-toe
twinkle-tow
-by e.e. cummings
Narrative - a poem that tells a story
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the 18th of April, in '75;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lyric - a poem that expresses feelings such as love, sadness, joy, or grief.
O, my luve is like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June,
O, my luve is like the melodie,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
-by Robert Burns
Poetry Glossary - definitions and explanations of poetry terms
Limmerick - a 5 line poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme
A sleeper from the Amazon
Put nighties of his gra'mazon
The reason, that
He was too fat
To get his own pajamazon.
Cinquain - a 5 line poem
1 noun triangle
2 adjectives pointy, angled
3 verbs rotating, reflecting, translating
4 word sentence they have 3 sides
1 word 180
Haiku - 3 line poem with 5 syllables, 7 syllables, then 5 syllables
The cat is angry (5)
He lost his only cat toy (7)
We feel bad for him (5)