Identify Types of Poems

a 4-line poem with one of several schemes (also a stanza in a longer poem); the usual rhyme schemes include ABCB, AABB or ABAB

• quatrain

• limerick

• free verse

• ballad

a poem that uses the letters in a topic word to begin each line

• acrostic

• limerick

• concrete

• haiku

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

• haiku

• couplet

• limerick

• free verse

Two line stanza that rhymes.

• Rhyme Scheme

• Couplet

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance 

What is a limerick?

• 14 line poems that are broken into 4 or 2 stanzas

• Seventeen syllables in 3 lines

• Poems that are conveyed through their graphic shape

• A funny poem that is 5 lines long

Which choice is a Limerick Poem?

• There was an Old Man of Nantucket
  Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
  His daughter, called Nan,
  Ran away with a man,
  And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
  - Anonymous

• That at the last, and in short time, I spide,
  Under a rocke, where she alas, opprest,
  Fell to the ground, and there untimely dide.
  Cruell death vanquishing so noble beautie
  Oft makes me wayle so hard a desire.(Trans. Edmund Spenser)

• Light do I see within my Lady’s eyes
  And loving spirits in its plenisphere
  Which bear in strange delight on my heart’s care
  Till Joy’s awakened from that sepulchre.

What rhyme scheme does a limerick poem have?

• ABBAA

• AABBA

• ACAABA

• ABBBAB

This is an example of what type of poem?

• lyric

• ode

• narrative

• free verse

• humorous

Which type of poem is used to express an emotion?

• lyric

• ode

• narrative

• free verse

• humorous

Which type of poem tells a story?

• lyric

• ode

• narrative

• free verse

• humorous