To Wingyan

Haiku: Contains three unrhymed lines and usually includes 17 syllables in lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. Haikus generally describe scenes in nature.

In the rains of spring,

An umbrella and raincoat

Pass by, conversing

Limerick: This is a five-line poem with the rhyme scheme aabba. Lines one, two and five may have from 8-11 syllables, and lines three and four may have from 5-7 syllables. It has a bouncy rhythm and it is usually humourous.

There once was a limerick called Steven

Whose rhyme was very uneven

It didn’t make sense

It wasn’t funny

And who’d call a limerick Steven anyway?

Sonnet: This has fourteen lines and is usually written in iambic pentameter, which means each line contains 10 syllables, with an accent of falling on every other syllable. There is also a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. Sonnets centre on aspects of love, nature, inner struggles of the soul and other diverse subjects.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of the fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade.

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Riddle Poem: This indirectly describes a person, place, thing or idea. The reader must try to figure out the subject of the riddle. A riddle poem can be any length and usually has a rhyme scheme of abcb or aabb.

The beginning of eternity

The end of time and spoace,

The beginning of every end,

The end of every place.

Ode: This poem celebrates a person, animal or objects and is often written without the constraints of formal structure or rhyme.

Oh Mr Brown!

How I wish grammar

Was as interesting,

As you.

The only active

Or passive things

To me are your

Movements.

Who cares about

Verbs, unless you’re

Holding, kissing, touching, stroking, caressing

My hand?

If you want, you can even make it

Carefully, softly, gently, lovingly, continually,

Adverbial.

Oh Mr Brown!

Don’t you know that

Devine, handsome, suave, cuddly, heroic

Adjectives only apply

To you?

Oh Mr Brown!

Your tenses are all wrong.

The present counts

Not the past,

Oh Mr Brown!

I wish you taught

Maths, History, Science Cooking and Netball

Too.

At least then

I’d enjoy them even

Though I don’t

Understand them,

Either.

*These followings is not in my notes but the teacher taught us too

Free Verse: The poem contains no rhymes at all, but has a steady rhythm to it. No syllables constrain or any other format. – refer to my ‘Rose’ for example or try looking up internet.

Narrative: Like free-verse poem, but can contain rhymes to, which means that the poem has no absolute format or constrains at all. It must be written as description of scenes, places, or stories. Usually is first person or third person. – Somewhat like my ‘New Beginning, Another ending’... you can try looking up internet too~