POETRY

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WHAT IS POETRY

• Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response. Poetry has been known to employ meter and rhyme, but this is by no means necessary. Poetry is an ancient form that has gone through numerous and drastic reinvention over time. The very nature of poetry as an authentic and individual mode of expression makes it nearly impossible to define.

TYPES OF POETRY

• Sonnets• 14 lines• Rhyming• Iambic Meter

• Limericks• 5 Lines• A,A,B,B,A

• Haiku• 3 lines• 5,7,5

• Epic• Free Verse

Sonnet

• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

Limerick

• There once was a site on the WebWhich caused readers nothing but dread.Along I cameNow nothing’s the same.People view it and smile instead.How to Write A Limerick - Limericks http://forums.familyfriendpoems.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=918#ixzz2KQ5FjBW1

Haiku

Dreaming of ice creamThe winds of change blow softly

Deseret is served

Characteristics Of Poems

• Rhyme• Meter• Imagery• Voice• Repetition

RHYME

• Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.

Meter

• systematically arranged and measured rhythm in verse

Imagery

Voice

Repitition