This document defines and provides details about several poetic forms: - The ode is a single, unified poem that celebrates a single theme or idea with a formal tone. It can be about any subject and vary in length. - A haiku is a short three-line Japanese poem about nature that follows a specific syllabic structure. - An elegy is a formal poem, sometimes with rhyme and sometimes not, that memorializes a person or reflects on death or another serious topic. - A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem that follows a specific rhyme scheme, most often iambic pentameter. It can praise or comment on its subject.

1. By: Glenn S. Competente BEEd 2B

2.  IT EXPRESSES THE
THOUGHTS AND
FEELINGS OF THE POEM’S
SPEAKER, THE ONE WHO
SAYS ITS WORDS

4. …these poems rely
on their own music
created through
rhythm and sound…

6. ---IT IS A SINGLE , UNIFIED
STRAIN OF EXALTED VERSE
WITH A SINGLE PURPOSE
AND DEALING WITH A
SINGLE THEME…
(Practice Hall Literature, 2002)

7.  TO CELEBRATE
A SINGLE IDEA
OR OBJECT

8. AN ODE CAN BE
ABOUT ANY
SUBJECT.

9. ELABORATE AND
DIGNIFIED
IT GLORIFIES AND
CELEBRATES ITS SUBJECT
WITH A FORMAL TONE

10. MAY OR MAY
HAVE NOT END
RHYME OR
REGULAR RHYTHM

11. ITS NUMBER AND
LENGTH CAN VARY.
IT’S USUALLY LONG
WITH VARYING
LENGTHS.

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)

14. ANYTHING BUT
USUALLY MORE
ON NATURE

15. SERIOUS

16. DOESN’T RHYME
AND DOESN’T
HAVE REGULAR
RHYTHM…

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)

20. TO MEMORIALIZE
A PERSON OR
REFLECT ON A
SUBJECT

21. THE DEATH OF A
PARTICULAR PERSON
OR ANOTHER SERIOUS
SUBJECT SUCH AS
WAR.

22. FORMAL
AND SERIOUS

23. MAY OR MAY NOT
HAVE END RHYME.
MAY OR MAY NOT
HAVE A REGULAR
RHYTHM.

24. VARY

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)

27. SONNET IS
DERIVED FROM
THE ITALIAN WORD
‘SONNETO’ WHICH
MEANS LITTLE
SONG…

28. VARIES, BUT
OFTEN ITS
PURPOSE IS TO
PRAISE...

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.

30. IAMBIC
PENTAMETER ( AN
UNSTRESSED BEAT
FOLLOWED BY A
STRESSED BEAT)

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.