Haiku, Limerick, Sonnet, Free Verse, Narrative

1. Copy the definition and the example.
Then, choose a topic and create your own!

2. • Haikus are Japanese poems that are typically about
seasons.
• Haikus have three lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the
second 7, and the third 5. (5-7-5).
• Example:
Summer is coming
I’m ready for vacation
Get me out of school.

3. • Limericks are short, humorous poems
• They are five lines long.
• The rhyme scheme is AABBA
• Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme with one another.
• Lines 3 and 4 rhyme with each other.
• They are usually funny.
• Example:
There was a young fellow named Hall
Who fell in the spring in the fall.
‘Twould have been a sad thing
Had he died in the spring,
But he didn’t—he died in the fall.

4. Copy these notes then we will do an activity on
sonnets.
• A 14-line poem that compares two different things
• Sonnet rhyme scheme (Shakesperian)
• a b a b (lines 1-4)
c d c d (lines 5-8)
e f e f (lines 9-12)
g g (lines 13-14)
• The four sections of a sonnet are called a quatrain
• Quatrain 1: Establishes the subject of the sonnet
• 2: Develops the sonnet’s theme
• 3: Rounds off the sonnets theme
• 4: Conclusion

5. • Free verse does not constrain the author with specific rhyme
schemes and meter.
• It can be challenging to write though because you must use
creativity.
• It’s best to use short words that paint a picture (imagery,
personification, alliteration)
Night crept in,
slow and smooth.
It smothered the city
in darkness.
Lights in windows
of tall buildings blinked,
One. Two. Again.
And opened
their bright eyes.

6. • Narrative poetry tells a
story
• It doesn’t have to rhyme
but can
• The main purpose is to
entertain, not express
the narrator’s feelings
• Can be fiction or non-
fiction
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend,
"If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch
Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,
-- One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country-folk to be up and to arm.”
…… Continued