Shape poems:
Poems that take the shape of their subject
Cinquains:
5 line poem
Line 1. Title
Line 2. Describes appearance
Line 3. Describes texture
Line 4. Tells about taste
Line 5. Describes your opinion of it
One idea is to use fruit or vegetable as a topic.
Example:
Strawberry
Plump and speckled
Squashy, furry and soft
Tingles on my tongue
A treat to eat
Octopoem:
8 line poem
1. Topic is a colour
2. A season
3. A place
4. A type of weather
5. A type of clothing
6. A piece of furniture
7. A TV show
8. A type of food
Example:
A chef is white
He is the spring time
In a kitchen
He is sunny
A chef is an apron
A tall kitchen stool
He is the masterchef
A crispy roast chicken
Haiku:
A traditional form of Japanese poetry. The form is 3 lines totalling 17 syllables.
Line 1. 5 syllables
Line 2. 7 syllables
Line 3. 5 syllables
Example:
As the wind does blow
Across the trees, I see the
Buds blooming in May
Rhyme poem:
Rhymes are types of poems which have the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words most often at the ends of lines.
Example:
Mary had a little lamb,
but it was not a fool.
As Mary walked he stopped a car
and hitched a ride to school.
Limerick:
A funny 5 line poem
You will see that the first two lines rhyme, the second two lines are shorter and they rhyme, then the last line rhymes again with the first two.
Example:
A – A – B - B - A
A funky young shark known as Shaun,
Was good mates with young peter the prawn,
Though they made an odd pair,
One has to be fair,
And say both taste good served with sweetcorn
Acrostic:
A word is chosen and each letter describes the word of the topic.
Amazing
Nice scenery
T
Albatross
Really white
Cold
Terribly dry
Ice bergs
Cute penguins
A lot of seals