Poetry Project
For each of the following types of poems, you must:
- Research and define each of the poems listed below. YOU MUST DEFINE IT IN YOUR OWN WORDS, no cutting and pasting!
- Provide a rhyme scheme pattern foreach of the poems listed below. For example, an ABAB rhyme scheme
from To Anthea, Who May Command Him Any Thing by Robert Herrick:
Bid me to weep, and I will weep
While I have eyes to see;
And having none, and yet I will keep
A heart to weep for thee. |
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B
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3. Provide an example each of the poems listed below (a work from a famous poet will suffice).
4. Research and provide a history of the poetic styles. (3 or 2 of the poems listed)
5. Create your own poems. If you wrote two histories, write three originals. If you wrote three histories, write two originals. Your originals must NOT be one of the poem types you explored in part 4.
Types of poetry to explore:
Acrostic
Cinquain
Epitaph
Haiku
Tanka
Free Verse
Ballad
Song
Limerick
Sonnet
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