lesson Flashcards
THE POEM STRUCTURES;
HAIKU; ACROSTIC; ALPHABET;
a traditional form of Japanese poetry
HAIKU
the shortest but the most popular Japanese
poem
HAIKU
don’t have titles
don’t use abstract noun
don’t rhyme
always in present tense
HAIKU
It is consists of 3 lines.
the 1st line has 5 syllables,
2nd line has 7 syllables,
and 3rd line has 5 syllables
It’s a total of 17 SYLLABLES
HAIKU
- spells words out on the left hand side of the
page using the first letter of each line
Acrostic Poem
a form of poetry where the first or last letters
of each line create a name, word, or phrase.
Acrostic Poem
“MY LOVE IS POETRY
MonkeyS
Yell and slaP
Lions tO
Offend micE
Visiting the eleganT
Elephant to heaR
It hide and crY.”
ACROSTIC POEM
“Tree branch sways slowly
As a child sings a sweet song
Gracefully it goes.”
HAIKU
poems in which
the first letter of each line (or couplet, or stanza) spells out
the alphabet
ALPHABET
“Altered breeds came, dangerous
existence faces great hordes, I just
knew lately many new organisms,
product quality raised, say, though us
various woes xerify, yank, zap.”
ALPHABET POETRY