haiku, couplets, odes, oh my!

I'm the dork who loves poetry. I love writing it about as much as most people hate writing it. Recently, I've been exploring the different types of poetry, and have been noticing similarities in the way people write their poetry. (I know, you probably think this is boring.)

For example, William Shakespeare always wrote his sonnets as four quatrains and a couplet! Personally, if I were him, I would throw everyone off and write Sonnet 155 (I did my research - #154 was his last, I think) as a random haiku:

I am Will Shakespeare
I am a poetic guy
I love glaze doughnuts

(Do NOT tell me he did not love glaze doughnuts! I KNOW he did, even if they were invented 200 years after he died!)

ANYway, back to the point. here are some AWESOME forms of poetry!

Haiku: Three lines, the first consisting of five syllables, the second of seven , and the third of five. (They don't have to rhyme.)

Limerick: This limerick goes in reverse
  Unless I'm remiss
  The neat thing is this:
If you start from the bottom-most verse
This limerick's not any worse

(NOT written by me!)

Sonnet: A poem consisting of 14 lines, with a strict rhyme scheme. That I don't want to go into.

And there are so many more! One of my absolute favorite poems is written by Emily Dickinson:

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.

The only weird thing is the hyphens. But it's still a REALLY cool poem!

Anyway, I hope you are...somehow...benefited by this post!

-Avamae

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