DIFFERENT FORMS OF JOANNE H.

MEDINA, LPT
POETRY
 FORMS OF POETRY
FORMS CHARACTERISTICS

BLANK VERSE A poem of consistent length and meter but do not employ rhyme

HAIKU Brief Japanese verse form of poem consisting of three lines and seventeen syllables.

EPIC A narrative poem about a hero

LIMERICK A poem consisting of five lines wherein lines one, two, and five and lines three and four are
rhyming.

FREE VERSE A poem without standard rhyme patterns, line length

SONNET A poem consisting of fourteen lines of iambic pentameterm makes use of rhyme.
BLANK VERSE
A form of poetry which originated from Italy. It was adapted
and transformed by Henry Howard.
It is said to be a form closely resembling human speech.
Written in iambic pentameter, or a line with ten syllables and
five stresses.
It is unrhymed and traditionally uses dramatic speech.
Ex: “Spring Offensive” by Wilfred Owen.
HAIKU
 The most familiar poetic form.
 A traditional Japanese poetic form with a three-line poem,
which has a 5-7-5 syllable count.
 It frequently uses images in nature and succinctly conveys
in one moment of time an illumination about life and the
world.
“An ocean voyage,
As waves break over the bow,
The sea welcomes me.”
EPIC
 A long, serious poetic narrative about a
significant event, often featuring a hero.
Before the development of writing, epic
poems were memorized and played an
important part in maintaining a record of the
great deeds and history of a culture.
Ex: The Odyssey, Biag ni Lam-ang, Ibalon.
 LIMERICK
The form appeared in England in the yearly years of 18 th century.
Popularized by Edward Lear in the 19th century.
Usually humorous and frequently rude.
With a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA, in which the first, second, and fifth line rhyme, while
the third and fourth lines are shorter and share a different rhyme.
Ex: “There was a small boy of Quebec” by Rudyard Kipling
There was a small boy of Quebec,
Who was buried in snow to his neck;
When they said. “Are you friz?”
He replied, “yes, I is –
But we don’t call this cold in Quebec.”
FREE VERSE
Although this form does not follow a rhyme,
metrical, or musical scheme, free verse does
operate with these elements as a guiding principles.
The free verse poet has to create rhythm without
relying on predetermined structures, and does this
through lineation, sound, image, and diction.
Ex: “Twilights V” by Conrad Aiken
SONNET
Originated in Italy.
The Shakespearean sonnet, has the rhyme sche,e ABAB
CDCD EFEF GG, usually written in iambic pentameter.
In contemporary usage, most have done away with these
formal structures, but have kept intactthe number oflines,
which is fourteen.
Ex: poems of Elizabeth Barret Browning and William
Shakespeare.
EXPERIMENTAL TEXTS
HIGHLIGHTS
There are other forms of poetry aside from the known
traditional forms which combine features of different genre
and combines different methods. These are called
EXPERIMENTAL TEXTS.
These Experimental Texts include TYPOGRAPHY and
GENRE-CROSSING TEXTS.
Under typography, is the concrete poetry.
Under genre-crossing text is prose poem and performance
poetry.
TYPOGRAPHY
CONCRETE
POETRY/ SHAPE
POETRY
A poem whose
layout or typography
implies the subject
of the poem.
GENRE CROSSING TEXT A Seltzer Bottle
Prose Poem by Gertrude Stein
A SELTZER BOTTLE. Any neglect of many particles to a
A kind of poetry cracking, any neglect of this makes around it what is lead in
color and certainly discolor in silver. The use of this is manifold.
that is written in Supposing a certain time selected is assured, suppose it is even
paragraphs which necessary, suppose no other extract is permitted and no more
handling is needed, suppose the rest of the message is mixed
contains language with a very long slender needle and even if it could be any black
border, supposing all this altogether made a dress and suppose it
play, images, and was actual, suppose the mean way to state it was occasional, if
you suppose this in August and even more melodiously, if you
with instances of suppose this even in the necessary incident of there certainly
being no middle in summer and winter, suppose this and an
poetic meter elegant settlement a very elegant settlement is more than of
consequence, it is not final and sufficient and substituted. This
which was so kindly a present was constant.
PERFORMANCE POETRY/
SPOKEN-WORD POETRY
It is being recited in front of an audience
in public spaces. It uses vernacular
language and appealing oral elements like
music, recording, and other elements of
signification.