Poetry Styles
(Templates are available by clicking on poetry style names)
A poem where one or more words are written down the left margin with one letter per line, and each letter starts the first word in each line.
Example: Cats
Curl up on my lap
Always land on their feet
Terrific mice catchers
So happy to have one as my pet!
A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines
of five, seven, and five syllables.
Example: by Basho Matsuo (1644-1694)
An old silent pond ...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
Two successive lines of verse, especially that rhyme
and are of the same length.
Example: An excerpt from “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Seuss
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them Sam I am.
Three successive lines of verse, especially that rhyme
and are of the same length.
Example:
There once was a brown bear
Who went to the county fair
He met his best friend there
A light, humorous poem of five lines with the rhyme scheme of aabba.
Example: Hickory Dickory Dock by Mother Goose
Hickory dickory dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
And down he run.
Hickory dickory dock.
