COUPLET AND QUATRAIN POEM

COUPLET AND QUATRAIN POEM

By Miakela Pausal

COUPLET

Couplet poems, or couplet poetry are comprised of two rhyming lines of verse. They can be as short as one couplet (two lines), or as long as it takes to tell the poem.

EXAMPLE

SILLY SALLY

When Silly Sally irons her clothes, they come out looking awful.She did not read the label and her iron was meant to waffle.

EXAMPLE

SUDDEN BALDNESS

"Oh my!" the portly gent called out. "I cannot find my hair.I washed and put it out to dry, and now it isn't there!"

GOOSE AND MOOSE

It's hard to tell just what a goose

will have in common with a moose.

Or better yet, just what three geese

will have in common with three meese.

(Is that the plural for a mouse?

Is grice the plural for three grouse?)

I'll say this once, I'll say this thrice,

the plural for a moose is mice,

or plural for three mice is meeses.

I think that I may fall to pieces.

I feel my dizzy state increase

about the mice, the grice and geese.

EXAMPLE

Fill in the Blanks

My cat likes to chase a mouse,

especially the one in the

Fill in the Blanks

Lightning, thunder all around

Soon the rain falls on the

Fill in the Blanks

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall

Humpty Dumpty had a great

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QUATRAIN

EXAMPLE

A​

B

B

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EXAMPLE

EXAMPLE

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EXAMPLE

Multiple Choice

Guess the rhyme pattern.

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABCB

Multiple Choice

Guess the rhyme pattern.

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABCB

Multiple Choice

Guess the rhyme pattern.

Nobody knows it's empty,

The smile that I wear.

The real one is left behind in the past

Because I left you there...

• AABB

• ABAB

• ABCB

Now, let's make your own example of QUATRAIN poem.

Write it on your paper.