Poetic Form
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Unit 3
What Does It Mean to Explore?
Reader's Notebook
Poetic form
There are three types of short poems with which to become familiar so that you can write a poem.
A shape poem describes an object and is shaped the same as the object the poem is describing. For example, this poem is shaped like a tree. It compares a rocket and a seed.
Fueled
Fueled
by a million
man-made
wings of fire-
the rocket tore a tunnel
through the sky-
and everybody cheered.
Fueled
only by a thought from God-
the seedling
urged its way
through thicknesses of black-
and as it pierced
the heavy ceiling of the soil-
and launched itself
up into outer space -
no
one
even
clapped.
--Marcie Hans
Fueled
by a million
man-made
wings of fire-
the rocket tore a tunnel
through the sky-
and everybody cheered.
Fueled
only by a thought from God-
the seedling
urged its way
through thicknesses of black-
and as it pierced
the heavy ceiling of the soil-
and launched itself
up into outer space -
no
one
even
clapped.
--Marcie Hans
A cinquain is a five-line poem that contains twenty-two syllables total.
It follows a pattern 2, 4, 6, 8, 2. The first line of the poem contains two syllables, the second line 4 syllables and so on. Cinquain poems do not need to rhyme. For example,
It follows a pattern 2, 4, 6, 8, 2. The first line of the poem contains two syllables, the second line 4 syllables and so on. Cinquain poems do not need to rhyme. For example,
November Night
Listen
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
the leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.
Adelaide Crapsey
Listen
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
the leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.
Adelaide Crapsey
Free verse poems have short lines, use repetition, and contain figures of speech. Free verse does not have a rhyme, or have rhythm. This free verse poem has six lines and is written in a unique pattern. For example,
Starlight
You told me you
Couldn't find your way
In your darkest nights
So I left you a star
A star in every poem
To find your way home
Jack Jenkins
You told me you
Couldn't find your way
In your darkest nights
So I left you a star
A star in every poem
To find your way home
Jack Jenkins
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