Types of Poems

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

• haiku

• couplet

• limerick

• free verse

“There was an old man from Peru
Who dreamt he was eating his shoe.
He awoke in a fright
In the middle of the night
And found it was perfectly true.”

• couplet

• haiku

• limerick

• cinquain

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

What part of a Limerick poem describes or introduces the main character?

• first line

• last line

• 3rd line

• 2nd line

What is the structure of syllables in the lines of a haiku?

• 3 - 5 - 3

• 5 - 7 - 5

• 9 - 7 - 9

• 1 - 3 - 1

_____________ poems do not rhyme or follow patterns (do not follow any rules of poetry)

• free verse

• lyrical

• limerick

• haiku

A _____________ is a humorous, five line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme.

• narrative

• haiku

• limerick

• humorous