Hi kids!
Poetry is a form of literary art. It is rhythm and rhyme. It stirs a reader’s imagination or emotions.
The different types of poetries are:
CLERIHEW: whimsical and biographical. It focusses on a person. Consists of two rhymed couplets (AABB rhyme scheme)It begins with the name of the person being written about.
BALLAD: old traditional form. It tells a dramatic or emotional story. It has a musical quality.
CINQUAIN: also known as Quintet. A stanza is composed of 5 lines. It’s mainly found in European languages.
EPIC: tells us a grand story about Gods, adventures. These are long and narrative.
SONNET: They consist of 14 lines. Follows a strict rhyme scheme. Written in iambic pentameter.
PANTOUM: started as Malaysian folk poem. It grew and changed as it got adopted by Western writers.
SESTINA: A complex French verse form featuring unrhymed lines.
VILLANELLE: French verse form. Five 3 line stanzas and a final quatrain.
EKPHRASTIC: not a form poem . Poems written about Works of Art.
HAIKU: a form of traditional Japanese poetry. Unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables.
ODE: structured poems. Praises or glorifies an event or an individual.
LIMERICK: rhythmic 5 line poem. AABBA rhyme scheme. It’s often funny, short and punchy consisting of just one stanza. Can be written on people, places and things. Edward Lear was the father of Limericks.
Kids, would you like to form a Limerick and send it across to me at jdevangi@gmail.com?
Am sharing a few words that you all can incorporate in your Limerick!
Cat hat mat rose nose
Hope you all had fun PLAYING WITH POETRY!
Do try to follow the rules while penning it down, but like the saying goes
If you follow all the rules, you miss the fun!
Eagerly waiting to read your Limericks.
Written by Devangi Jhaveri
