Forms of poetry

Question 1

Limerick

Answer 1

5 line poem written with 1 couplet and 1 triplet
Meant to be funny - often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idoms, puns and other figurative devices. Last line of good limerick contains punch line
Nonsense verse
Rhyme scheme- AABBA; meter 3,3,2,2,3; syllabification 8,8,5,5,8
couplet- 2 line rhymed poem
triplet- 3 line rhymed poem

Question 2

What form of poetry is this example:
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, “Let us flee”
“Let us fly,” said the flea.
So they flew through a
flaw in the flue

Answer 2

Limerick

Question 3

Ode

Answer 3

Type of lyrical stanza. Elaborately structured poem, praising or glorifying event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally

Question 4

What form of poetry is this
It’s Monday night, and
It’s not even eight.
Dishes are done and my
Kitchen is straight.
Everyone has been fed.
Kids will soon be in bed.
Football’s done…Oh, isn’t it great!

Answer 4

Ode

Question 5

Blank verse

Answer 5

Literary device defined as unrhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. In poetry and prose it has a consistent meter with 10 syllables in each line; where unstressed syllables are followed by stressed ones, 5 of which are stressed but don’t rhyme

Question 6

What form of poetry is this
But soft. What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!

Answer 6

Blank verse

Question 7

Free verse

Answer 7

Literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, doesn’t rhyme with fixed forms, yet still provide artistic expression

Question 8

What form of poetry is this
She calls me tofu
because I am so soft,
easily falling apart.

I wish I were tough
and full of fire, like ginger-
like her.

Answer 8

free verse

Question 9

Sonnets

Answer 9

Sonnet is derived from italian word “sonetto” which means little song or small lyric.
Sonnet has 14 lines written in iambic pentameter. Each line 10 syllables. Generally divided into different groups based on rhyme scheme they follow

Question 10

Sonnets- italian

Answer 10

Broken into 2 parts
Pctave- First 8 lines with rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA
SESTET- Last 6 lines with rhyme scheme CDCDCD or CDECDE

Question 11

Sonnets- english

Answer 11

Broken into 3 quatrains and a couplet
Rhyming scheme- ABAB CDCD EFEF GG