Table of Contents

Page # Title and Description

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Cover Page

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Table of Contents

3 Poetry Styles Handout for Students: Cover Page

4 Poetry Styles Handout for Students: Page 1

5 Poetry Styles Handout for Students: Page 2

6 Poems to Analyze: Cover Page

7 Poems to Analyze: Emily Dickinson & John Donne

8 Poems to Analyze: William Shakespeare

9 Poems to Analyze: Edgar Allan Poe

10 Poems to Analyze: Mother Goose

11 Poems to Analyze: Haiku & Limerick

12 Poems to Analyze: Cinquain & Haiku

13 Poems to Analyze: Robert Frost

14 Poems to Analyze: Lewis Carroll

15 Poems to Analyze: Additional Suggestions

16 Self-Assessment Ticket

17-24

Poetry Templates: Diamante, Cinquain, Sonnet, Acrostic, Couplets, etc.

25 Poetry Portfolio Requirements

Save for Poetry Portfolio!!!

Acrostic - Poetry in which certain letters, usually the first in each line, form a word or

message when read in a sequence.

Teacher

Trainer of fresh young minds,

Educator of tomorrow's leaders,

A friendly face every morning,

Challenges students to reach higher,

Helps every child learn new skills,

Eager to see a class pass the test,

Ready to answer every one's questions

Ballad - A poem that tells a story similar to a folktale or legend which often has a

repeated refrain.

Excerpt of “The Mermaid” by Unknown author

Oh the ocean waves may roll,

And the stormy winds may blow,

While we poor sailors go skipping aloft

And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below

And the land lubbers lay down below…

Cinquain - Poetry with five lines. There are several different kinds but one pattern is as

follows: Line1: A noun; Line2: Two adjectives; Line 3: Three -ing words; Line 4: A phrase;

Line 5: Another word for the noun

Spaghetti

Messy, spicy

Slurping, sliding, falling

Between my plate and mouth

Delicious

Couplet - A couplet has rhyming stanzas made up of two lines.

My Cat

By Molly (at age 5)

I like to play with my cat

He likes to get in a hat.

Diamante – poetry with seven lines, shaped like a diamond. It is similar to the Cinquain.

Lion

Majestic, proud

Roaring, snarling, prowling

Mane, muscle . . . Fleece, fluff

Bleating, leaping, grazing

Meek, gentle

Lamb

Epic - An extensive, serious poem that tells the story about a heroic figure.

Example: the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer

Free verse - A poem written that is unrhymed and without any rhythmic pattern.

Haiku - A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five

syllables. It is usually about nature, particularly seasons.

The red blossom bends

and drips its dew to the ground.

Like a tear it falls

Limerick – A 5-lined rhyming poem that is often humorous, mean-spirited, or vulgar.

There once was a fellow named Tim

whose dad never taught him to swim.

He fell off a dock

and sunk like a rock.

And that was the end of him.

Ode - A lengthy lyric poem typically of a serious or meditative nature and having an

elevated style and formal stanza structure.

Except: 624. Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains

My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,

Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains

One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:

'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, 5

But being too happy in thine happiness,

That thou, light-wingèd Dryad of the trees,

In some melodious plot

Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,

Singest of summer in full-throated ease. 10 …

Quatrain - A stanza or poem consisting of four lines. Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme while

having a similar number of syllables.

from Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard")

The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,

The plowman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Sonnet (Shakespearean) - A 14-line sonnet consisting of three

quatrains of abab cdcd efef followed by a couplet, gg. Generally

uses iambic pentameter.

Shape - Poetry written in the shape or form of an object.

"I'm nobody! Who are you?"

by Emily Dickinson

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!

They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!

How public, like a frog

To tell your name the livelong day

To an admiring bog!

For whom the bell tolls a poem

(No man is an island) by John Donne

No man is an island,

Entire of itself.

Each is a piece of the continent,

A part of the main.

If a clod be washed away by the sea,

Europe is the less.

As well as if a promontory were.

As well as if a manner of thine own

Or of thine friend's were.

Each man's death diminishes me,

For I am involved in mankind.

Therefore, send not to know

For whom the bell tolls,

It tolls for thee.

Sonnet 130

by William Shakespeare

1. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

2. Coral is far more red than her lips' red;

3. If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

4. If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

5. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,

6. But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

7. And in some perfumes is there more delight

8. Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

9. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

10. That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

11. I grant I never saw a goddess go;

12. My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:

13. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

14. As any she belied with false compare.

A Dream Within A Dream

by Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow –

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand –

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep -- while I weep!

O God! can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

Little Jack Horner by: Mother Goose

Little Jack Horner

Sat in a corner,

Eating of Christmas pie;

He put in his thumb,

And pull'd out a plumb,

And said what a good boy am I.

Hey Diddle Diddle By Mother Goose

Hey diddle, diddle,

The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon,

The little dog laughed,

To see such a craft,

And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Haiku

LIMERICK

A Clumsy Young Fellow Named Tim

There once was a fellow named Tim (A) whose dad never taught him to swim. (A) He fell off a dock (B) and sunk like a rock. (B) And that was the end of him. (A)

Cinquain

Tree

Strong, Tall

Swaying, swinging, sighing

Memories of summer

Oak

Fall (Haiku)

Swiftly turning leaves

Set adrift from their birthplace

Always as it was

The wind sweeping down

Releases the captive leaves

A final journey

Autumn brings winter

The beginning of the end

My rebirth assured

- Copyright 2002, by Joseph Rohrbach

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Beautiful Soup

by Lewis Carroll

BEAUTIFUL Soup, so rich and green,

Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop?

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

Beau--ootiful Soo-oop! Beau--ootiful Soo-oop!

Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful Soup!

Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish,

Game, or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two Pennyworth only of Beautiful Soup? Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?

Beau--ootiful Soo-oop! Beau--ootiful Soo-oop!

Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!

Additional Recommended Poems

If you’re looking for more great poems for your students to read, check out the following recommendations. Poems in blue have a hyperlink you can follow.

As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed by Jack Prelutsky

It’s Dark in Here by Shel Silverstein

Crossing the Bar by Lord Alfred Tennyson

O Captain, My Captain by Walt Whitman

Where Did You Come From, Baby Dear? by George MacDonald

The Cow by Robert Louis Stevenson

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou (video of her reading it)

The Dentist and the Crocodile by Roald Dahl

Bee I’m Expecting You by Emily Dickinson

The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

Frodo's Song in Bree by J.R.R. Tolkien

Daddy Fell Into the Pond by Alfred Noyes

1. Did you say the title? ______________________

2. Were you loud enough? __________________

3. Did you speak in a clear manner?

__________________________________________

4. Did you place appropriate emphasis?

__________________________________________

5. Did your reading help your audience better

understand the poem?

__________________________________________

1. Did you say the title? ______________________

2. Were you loud enough? __________________

3. Did you speak in a clear manner?

__________________________________________

4. Did you place appropriate emphasis?

__________________________________________

5. Did your reading help your audience better

understand the poem?

__________________________________________

Line 1: Beginning topic:

Line 2: Two adjectives about beginning topic:

Line 3: Three –ing words about beginning topic:

Line 4: Four nouns or a short phrase linking beginning to ending topic:

Line 5: Three –ing words about ending topic:

Line 6: Two adjectives describing ending topic:

Line 7: Ending topic:

Line 1: Topic

Line 2: Two adjectives about topic

Line 3: Three –ing words about topic

Line 4: A phrase describing the topic

Line 5: Another word for topic

Name_____________________________________Grade___________Date_____________

Limericks are often humorous, mean-spirited, or vulgar.

Limericks consist of five lines. The rhyme scheme is aabba. In other words, Lines

One, Two, and Five all rhyme, and Lines Three and Four rhyme. The rhythm

usually follows this pattern: 8, 8, 5, 5, and 7 syllables.

There once was a fellow named Tim (A)

whose dad never taught him to swim. (A)

He fell off a dock (B)

and sunk like a rock. (B)

And that was the end of him. (A)

Here are some first lines you can use to get you started if you want.

1. There was an unusual boy,

2. There once was a very old dog,

3. A beautiful girl in my town,

4. There was a young woman whose head,

5. Two poets who couldn't agree.

1. _________________________________________________________________ (A)

2. _________________________________________________________________ (A)

3. ____________________________________________________ (B)

4. ____________________________________________________ (B)

5. _________________________________________________________________ (A)

Name____________________________________Grade___________Date_____________

How to write a sonnet Directions:

o Sonnets have 14 lines, 10 syllables in each line, and stresses on every other

syllable.

o Think of a topic for your sonnet.

o On scratch paper, come up with rhyming words to help your poem.

o Finally, start writing out your sonnet on the lines below!

1. ________________________________________________________________ A

2. ________________________________________________________________ B

3. ________________________________________________________________ A

4. ________________________________________________________________ B

5. ________________________________________________________________ C

6. ________________________________________________________________ D

7. ________________________________________________________________ C

8. ________________________________________________________________ D

9. ________________________________________________________________ E

10. ________________________________________________________________ F

11. ________________________________________________________________ E

12. ________________________________________________________________ F

13. ________________________________________________________________ G

14. ________________________________________________________________ G

Name_____________________________________Grade___________Date_____________

An acrostic poem is written so that certain letters begin the first letter of each

line and form a word or message when read in a sequence.

Directions:

o Write a practice acrostic poem using the format below.

o Use the first letter of each line to write a word or phrase that describes the

main word going vertically.

Summer

S_____________________________

U_____________________________

M_____________________________

M_____________________________

E_____________________________

R_____________________________

Name_____________________________________Grade___________Date_____________

Directions:

o Write your own series of couplets on a related topic.

o Must be at least 8 lines long (especially if you’re going to use it for your

Portfolio.

o Remember: a couplet has rhyming stanzas made up of two lines, aa bb cc

dd.

Title: ________________

1. ________________________________________________________________ A

2. ________________________________________________________________ A

3. ________________________________________________________________ B

4. ________________________________________________________________ B

5. ________________________________________________________________ C

6. ________________________________________________________________ C

7. ________________________________________________________________ D

8. ________________________________________________________________ D

Name_____________________________________Grade___________Date_____________

Directions:

o Write your own series of quatrains on a related topic.

o Must be at least 8 lines long (especially if you’re going to use it for your

Portfolio.

o Remember: a quatrain has rhyming stanzas made up of four lines, abab,

cdcd.

Title: ________________

1. ________________________________________________________________ A

2. ________________________________________________________________ B

3. ________________________________________________________________ A

4. ________________________________________________________________ B

5. ________________________________________________________________ C

6. ________________________________________________________________ D

7. ________________________________________________________________ C

8. ________________________________________________________________ D

Name_____________________________________Grade___________Date_____________

Directions:

o Write your own series of haikus on a related topic.

o Must be at least 8 lines long if you’re going to use it for your Portfolio

o Remember: haikus are non-rhyming poems with a set of 5-7-5 syllables and

are often written about nature/the seasons.

Title: ________________

1. ________________________________________________________________

2. ________________________________________________________________

3. ________________________________________________________________

4. ________________________________________________________________

5. ________________________________________________________________

6. ________________________________________________________________

7. ________________________________________________________________

8. ________________________________________________________________

9. ________________________________________________________________

Poetry Portfolio Assessment Guidelines

1—Needs Improvement • 2—Average • 3—Excellent

POETRY PORTFOLIO REQUIREMENTS

Include the following in listed order:

________ Cover page: interesting, well constructed, and relevant to poems

________ All About Me page: free of errors, interesting to read, and relevant to author

________Dedication Page: free of errors and relevant to author

________ Five original, personal poems; five different styles; all poems in proper format

________Separating Page: personal & class poems separated with piece of colored paper

________Class poems in their entirety: 1) Poetry Handout, 2) Dickinson & Donne 3) Sonnet

130, 4) A Dream within a Dream, 5) Mother Goose, 6) Haiku /Limerick 7) Tree /

Invitation, 8) As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed, 9) It’s Dark in Here, 10) Fall

1—Poor • 2—Needs Improvement • 3—Average • 4—Good • 5—Excellent

POETRY PORTFOLIO

_______ Used class time wisely

________ Showed understanding of the different types of poetic formats when writing

________ Used appropriate wording and graphics

________ Used text, grammar, and punctuation properly

________ Showed effort and careful planning for design elements including font attributes, color

choices, and graphics

TOTAL

*Turn in with Poetry Portfolio.

DUE: ________________________________