Download Free Verse Poetry - IICS Grade 5 English

*Poetry
Poetry Concepts Review:
*Free Verse Poetry: Poetry that is not tied to any certain
poetic form; it doesn’t have to rhyme or have a certain
number of lines or syllables; the words do need to be wellchosen and artistic; it is usually arranged in stanzas and lines
(not paragraphs).
*Personification: When writers give human characteristics to
animals or other objects.
*Alliteration: A repetition of consonant sounds, such as “the
smooth, skaterly glide and sudden swerve.”
*Onomatopoeia: When a word sounds like the action it
describes.
*Imagery: Writers use words to help the reader see, hear,
feel, and experience an idea.
*Metaphor: When a writer compares two different things
without using the words like or as.
*Simile: When a writer compares two different things using
the words like or as.
Listen...
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.
Cinquain
Cinquain is an
American poetic
style that was
invented by
Adelaide Crapsey
in 1915. Its name
comes from
“Cinq”, which is
French for “Five”.
• Five lines
• 2 syllables in first line, 4 in the second, 6 in
the 3rd , 8 in the 4th and 2 in the 5th
• The rhythm of the poem has a stressed
syllable on every second syllable
• Cinquains can include similes, metaphor,
imagery, and onomatopoeia
• Usually cinquains do not include rhymes
About Cinquains
SNOW
Look up…
From bleakening hills
Blows down the light, first breath
Of wintry wind…look up, and scent
The snow!
NOW BARABBAS WAS A ROBBER
No guile?
Nay, but so strangely
He moves among us…Not this
Man but Barabbas! Release to us
Barabbas!
Completed example
Don’t look…
Like a mother
Creeping into my room
The bright, gold sun peers in and then
Wakes me.
by Linda S. Checkley