12. Under the trees light
has dropped from the top of
the sky,
Light
Like a green
Latticework of branches,
Shining
On every leaf,
Drifting down like clean
White sand.
a cicada sends
Its sawing song
high into the empty
air.
The world is
a glass of
overflowing
With water
13. A SHORT POEM THAT
ORIGINATES IN JAPAN, BUT
PEOPLE AROUND THE
WORLD ENJOY WRITING
READING THESE VERY SHORT
POEMS. (Practice Hall
Literature, 2002)
17. IT HAS THREE LINES: THE 1ST
AND LAST LINE ARE SEVEN
SYLLABLES WHILE THE
MIDDLE LINE CONTAINS
FIVE SYLLABLES
18. Temple bells die out
The fragrant blossoms
remain
A perfect evening!
-Basho
Bearing no flowers,
I am free to toss madly
Like the willow tree
-Chijoyo
19. A FORMAL POEM WRITTEN IN
ALTERNATING DACTYLIC
HEXAMETER AND DACTYLIC
PENTAMETER THAT REFLECTS ON
DEATH OR ANOTHER SOLEMN
THEME (Grolier Encyclopedia of
Knowledge, 2003)
25. She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove
A maid whom were none to praise
And very few to love.
A violet by a mossy stone
Half-hidden from the eye!
-Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me
26. IT IS A FOURTEEN-LINE
POEM THAT FOLLOWS
A SPECIFIED RHYME
SCHEME(Practice Hall
Literature, 2002)
29. IT HAS A DEFINITE RHYME SCHEME.
THE TYPE OF RHYME SCHEME A
SONNET HAS PLACES IT INTO AN
EVEN SMALLER CATEGORY OF
PETRARCHAN (ITALIAN) SONNETS
OR SHAKESPEREAN (ENGLISH OR
ELIZABETHAN) SONNET.
31. ALL HAS FOUTEEN LINE.
PETRARCHAN SONNETS HAVE 2
STANZAS: AN OCTET
FOLLOWED BY A SEXTET.
SHAKESPEREAN SONNETS HAVE
4 STANZAS: 3 QUATRAINS
FOLLOWED BY A COUPLET.
32. SONNET 116
1 LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE
MINDS
2 ADMIT IMPEDIMENTS. LOVE IS NOT LOVE
3 WHICH ALTERS WHEN IT ALTERATION FINDS,
4 OR BENDS WITH THE REMOVER TO
REMOVE.
5 OH NO, IT IS AN EVER-FIXED MARK
6 THAT LOOKS ON TEMPESTS AND IS NEVER
SHAKEN;
7 IT IS THE STAR TO EVERY WAND’RING BARK
33. 8WHOSE WORTH’S UNKNOWN, ALTHOUGH
HIS HEIGHT BE TAKEN.
9 LOVE’S NOT TIME’S FOOL, THOUGH ROSY
LIPS AND CHEEKS
10 WITHIN HIS BENDING SICKLE’S COMPASS
COME
11 LOVE ALTERS NOT WITH HIS BRIEF HOURS AND
WEEKS,
12 BUT BEARS IT OUT EVEN TO THE EDGE OF
DOOM.
13 IF THIS BE ERROR AND UPON ME PROVED,
14 I NEVER WRIT, NOR NO MAN EVER LOVED.