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PenningMy Own

PoetryoOde oLimerick (2)oHaiku (3) oQuatrain oAntonym Diamante (2) oSonnetoConcrete oElegy

I WILL…

read all information and instructions carefully first refer to my Reading Resource notebook

then ask questions when I do not understand write all required poems and complete them to

the best of my ability ask at least two classmates to critique my

poems before I claim to be finished edit by completing the checklists and check for

spelling and grammar errors choose at least one poem to share with the

class.

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OdeDefined as:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

SampleOde to Coffee

Sweet coffee, I adore thee.Adrenaline of my days.

I hope the day will never come,When you and I part ways.Without you I’d be useless,

Perpetually sedated.I can’t imagine doing a thing,

If I were not caffeinated.Warm liquid of my better self,

Of my soul and heart.The bliss I know in a cup of joe,

We will never part.

Sweeter than the autumn breeze,Coming from the west.

Of all the liquids known to man,I love thee the best.

I hope the day will never come,When you and I part ways.Sweet coffee, I adore thee,

Adrenaline of my days.

Now it’s your turn:

Step 1: Brainstorm what you could write about. Add at least 5 more of your own ideas to the list below. Think about things you see and experience every day that you don’t usually notice.

Shoes Hairbrush GlueTeachers Computer DoctorFriendship Love Ice CreamPencil Books Notebook

Step 2: Pick your topic and brainstorm why it is important.

Topic:________________________

Description (use imagery words; break it into parts or sections in your description):

What it does: Why it’s important and what would happen without it:

How you feel about it:

Step 3: Write your poem. Be sure to keep your lines short and use as few words as possible. If you get stuck go back and study the example. Rough Draft

Ode to __________________________

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Step 4: Revise your poem

Circle “yes” or “no” to the following questions.

1. Does your poem describe the subject using at least two different senses? (touch, taste, sight, sound, smell) Yes No

2. Does your poem show how much you admire the subject? Yes No

3. Does your poem use words and phrases more than sentences (repetition)? Yes No

4. Does your poem explain the importance of your subject? Yes No

5. Does your poem have a clear rhythm? Yes No

For any “No” answers, go back and fix your poem.

∞Now check your spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

Haiku InstructionsA Haiku is a type of poetry from Japanese culture. Some usual themes include

nature, weather, feelings, or experiences.A Haiku must “paint” a mental image in the reader’s mind.

The most common form for Haiku is three short lines. The first line usually contains five (5) syllables, the second line seven (7) syllables, and the third line

contains five (5) syllables).

For more information about this type of poem, check your Reading Resource notebook.

You will be responsible for writing 3 Haikus!

Samples:The Rose By Donna Brock

The red blossom bends ----5 syllablesAnd drips its dew to the ground ----7syllables

Like a tear it falls----5 syllables

Summertime By Mrs. CrossanSunshine warms the day----5 syllables

Nights are cool in the moonlight----7syllablesTime for all to play. ----5 syllables

5 7 5

Haiku (Write 3)

Rough Draft

Title:_________________

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Edit Circle “yes” or “no” to the following questions

1. Do lines 1 and 3 have 5 syllables? Yes No2. Does line 2 have 7 syllables? Yes No3. This poem has no rhyme scheme? Yes No

For any “No” answers, go back and fix your poems.∞Now check your spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

Title:_________________

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Edit Circle “yes” or “no” to the following questions

1. Do lines 1 and 3 have 5 syllables? Yes No2. Does line 2 have 7 syllables? Yes No3. This poem has no rhyme scheme? Yes No

For any “No” answers, go back and fix your poems.∞Now check your spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

Title:_________________

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Edit Circle “yes” or “no” to the following questions

1. Do lines 1 and 3 have 5 syllables? Yes No2. Does line 2 have 7 syllables? Yes No3. This poem has no rhyme scheme? Yes No

For any “No” answers, go back and fix your poems.∞Now check your spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

Diamante InstructionsThe Italian word diamante means diamond in English.

On paper these poems look like a diamond.

The diamante poem combines the opposites/antonyms in a single, seven –line poem: the word of the last line is the opposite/antonym of the word of the first line first line. The lines in between describe either the starting word or its opposite/antonym.

Line 1 1 noun (will be the opposite/antonym of line 7)Line 2 2 adjectives describing the noun in line 1Line 3 3 gerunds (verbs ending in –ing) related to line 1Line 4 2 nouns about line 1 and 2 nouns about line 7Line 5 3 gerunds (verbs ending in –ing) related to line 7Line 6 2 adjectives describing the noun in line 7Line 7 1 noun (will be the opposite/antonym of line 1)

Examples:

Day

Bright, SunnyRaining, Shining, HeatingMorning, Noon, Evening,

BedtimeDark, Cold

Night

LightClear, brilliant

Glowing, shining, revealingMirror, candle – Whisper,

shadowDeepening, sleeping,

shroudingBlack, quiet

Dark

Diamantes (Write 2)Rough Draft

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Edit Circle “yes” or “no” to the following questions for both poems.

Poem 1 Poem21. Is line one a noun that is the opposite of line 7? Yes No Yes No2. Is line two 2 adjectives that describe line 1? Yes No Yes No3. Is line three 3 gerunds related to line 1? Yes No Yes No4. Is line four 2 nouns about line 1 and 2 nouns about

line 7? Yes No Yes No5. Is line five 3 gerunds related to line 7? Yes No Yes No6. Is line six 2 adjectives that describe line 7? Yes No Yes No7. Is line seven a noun that is the opposite of line 1? Yes No Yes No

For any “No” answers, go back and fix your poems.

∞Now check your spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

Concrete Poem Instructions

Concrete poetry—sometimes also called ‘shape poetry’—is poetry whose visual appearance matches the topic of the poem. The words form shapes which illustrate the poem’s subject

as a picture, as well as through their literal meaning.

This type of poetry has been used for thousands of years, since the ancient Greeks began to enhance the meanings of their poetry by arranging their characters in visually pleasing ways

back in the 3rd and 2nd Centuries BC.

Examples:

Concrete Poem

Rough Draft

Edit Circle “yes” or “no” to the following questions.

1. Is there a subject to your poem? Yes No

2. Is there an identifiable shape that relates to the subject? Yes No

For any “No” answers, go back and fix your poem.∞Now check your spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

Limerick InstructionsThough the origin of the limerick is not entirely known, it has an active, if not long, history.

Limericks published in eighteenth-century Mother Goose’s Melodies are thought to be among the oldest. Limericks are usually funny and light. They have a very distinctive meter

(anapestic pentameter) and rhyme scheme.

To get started writing limericks you must--

Line 1 Identify who the poem is about and tell where he is from.Line 2 Describe the person or tell something strange or different about him.Lines 3 - 4 Explain what happened as a result of the person’s strangeness.Line 5 Finish the limerick with an unexpected or funny conclusion

The bolded and underlined words are “stressed syllables”, while the other syllables are unstressed.

Rhyme Scheme

Rhythm

There was an old man from Peru A - / - - / - - /Who dreamed he was eating his shoe A - / - - / - - /He awoke in the night B - / - - /With a terrible fright B - / - - /To discover it’s tot ally true. A - / - - / - - /

Limericks (Write 2)Rough Draft

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_______________________________________AEdit Circle “yes” or “no” to the following questions.

1. Do your poems have the correct number of lines and syllables (stressed and unstressed)? Yes No

2. Do your poems have the correct rhyme scheme? Yes No

3. Do your poems have the correct rhythm? Yes No

4. Are your poems funny? Yes No

For any “No” answers, go back and fix your poems.

∞Now check your spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

Quatrain InstructionsQuatrain poems are any four-line stanzas with a rhyme

scheme. The topic can be about anything that is interesting to you! The only rules are that each stanza must be 4 lines and the rhyme scheme may look like: AABB, ABAB, ABBA, AAAA, ABCB, etc.

Your poem must be 3 stanzas long!

Examples:

Beauty InsideYour beauty deep insideBehind those bedroom eyesMost men will fail to findWith you only as a prize

I can see it clear as dayShining from your soulHiding from the preyIt truly makes you whole

So wipe away your tearsSet your beauty freeLeave behind your fearsCome walk away with me

©Tim Smith

(abab rhyme scheme)

(abcb rhyme scheme)

QuatrainRough Draft

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Edit Circle “yes” or “no” to the following questions.

1. Does your poem have 3 stanzas with 4 lines in eacheach stanza? Yes No

2. Does your poem have a rhyme schemes (label it to be sure)? Yes No

3. Is your poem about something of interest to you? Yes No

For any “No” answers, go back and fix your poems.

∞Now check your spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

~Sonnet~a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea,

or sentimentThe Formula

14 lines total- 10 syllables for each line Rhyme scheme- ABAB CDCD EFEF GG Iambic pentameter- X /

Samples

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130*

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I have seen roses damasked, red and white,But no such roses see I in her cheeks;And in some perfumes is there more delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowThat music hath a far more pleasing sound;I grant I never saw a goddess go;My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

* Notice that this is a satire!!!!

SONNET XL BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all;What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more.Then, if for my love, thou my love receivest,I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest;But yet be blam'd, if thou thy self deceivestBy wilful taste of what thyself refusest.I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,Although thou steal thee all my poverty:And yet, love knows it is a greater griefTo bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury.   Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,   Kill me with spites yet we must not be

foes.

~Sonnet~Rough Draft

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Edit Circle “yes” or “no” to the following questions.1. Does your poem have the correct number of lines and syllables? Yes No

2. Does your poem have the correct rhyme scheme? Yes No

3. Does your poem use figurative language including both at least one simile and metaphor? Yes No

4. Does your poem use personification or hyperbole? Yes No

5. Does your poem have a clear rhythm? Yes No

For any “No” answers, go back and fix your poem.

∞Now check your spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

Elegy InstructionsAn elegy is a type of poem written on the occasion of a death, be it someone the poet knows personally, a public figure or a group of casualties. The best elegies use the death, or deaths, as a starting point on a meditation about death and dying. Somber in tone, the elegy dates back to ancient Greek poetry.

For the FallenBY LAURENCE BINYON

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,England mourns for her dead across the sea.Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,

Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royalSings sorrow up into immortal spheres,There is music in the midst of desolationAnd a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.

They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;They sit no more at familiar tables of home;

They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,

To the innermost heart of their own land they are knownAs the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;

As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,To the end, to the end, they remain.Source: The London Times (1914)

Step 1:Choose a Topic

Step 2:Choose a Form

Step 3:Create a Theme

Step 4:Create a Tone

Death of a loved one Death of a hero or public

figure A tragic event involving

death

Free verse Rhymed couplet Rhymed quatrain Rhymed octave

Lament – Express what is missing from the world now that this person gone. What do you wish you had done before they passed on? Why is this a powerful loss for you and the world as a whole?

Grief – How does this death make you feel? What did you do when you learned about it? How did others react?

Praise – Celebrate what this person did for the world? In what ways will they be remembered? What did they build? Who did they teach? How will you never be the same?

Use metaphors, similes, and personification etc. to create a somber tone.

Use imagery to helps the reader feel the sense of loss.

Elegy InstructionsRough Draft

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Edit Circle “yes” or “no” to the following questions for both poems.

1. Does your poem reflect your topic? Yes No2. Does your poem follow your selected form? Yes No3. Is your theme developed throughout your poem? Yes No4. Is a sober tone created by using figurative language and imagery? Yes No

For any “No” answers, go back and fix your poems.

∞Now check your spelling, punctuation, and capitalization