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WEGA English II Poetry Project
With your group, you are going to create a project that addresses all the
components about poetry we have discussed in English class so far. Please read
over all parts of the project and make sure not to leave anything out. You may
divide parts of your project amongst yourselves, but you want to be sure that all
parts are completed to the best of your abilities.
Part A---Create a poem (of at least 10 lines) which has a theme either about
nature, technology, or a current event involving the engineering industry. The
poem may be free verse (does not have formal rhyme or meter)—your poem
must have a title. This poem also must include at least THREE of the poetic
devices we discussed. (label them)
Part B---Revise your original poem so that it has the structure, rhyme, and meter
of a particular type of poem. Your revised poem maybe shorter or longer than
your original poem, but it must have the same theme, title, and literary
elements. (label the elements once again)
Your group’s assigned poetic style:_______________________ (Read the
separate sheet which explains this poetic structure)
Part C---Create a colorful, creative, appealing poster on which you:
 Write the title of your poem(s)
 Write BOTH poems (free verse and structured)
 Illustrate symbol, scenes, etc which represent the themes of your poems
 Label the literary elements
Part D: Create an ISOMETRIC drawing of the speaker of your poem
holding, carrying, standing next to a SYMBOL which represents the theme
of your poem. (Ms. Myers will be involved in the grading of this
component, so you will want to be sure all measurements are accurate)
Part E: TPCASST your ORIGINAL free verse poem.
Part F: Present your poem(s) with your group to the class. In your
presentation you will read your poems, explain your poster, and talk
about how your free verse poem is different from your structured poem.
You will also instruct the class on the structure of your particular type of
poem. The class will need to take notes on this, so be prepared and clear
in your presentation!!
Part G: Another poetry group will TPCASST your structured, style poem.
Types of Poetry:
 The Ballad
A short narrative poem with stanzas of two or four lines and usually a refrain. The
story of a ballad can originate from a wide range of subject matter but most
frequently deals with folk-lore or popular legends.
They are written in straight-forward verse, seldom with detail, but always with
graphic simplicity and force. Most ballads are suitable for singing and, while
sometimes varied in practice, are generally written in ballad meter, last words of
the second and fourth lines rhyming.
 Haiku Poetry
Haiku (also called nature or seasonal haiku) is an unrhymed Japanese verse
consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17
syllables in all. Haiku is usually written in the present tense and focuses on nature
(seasons).
The 5/7/5 rule is rumored to have been made up for school children to
understand and learn this type of poetry.
 An Irish Limerick
A Limerick is a rhymed humorous, and or nonsense poem of five lines. With a
rhyming scheme of: a-a-b-b-a
 Quatrain Poetry
A Quatrain is a poem consisting of four lines of verse with a specific rhyming
scheme.
A few examples of a quatrain rhyming scheme's are as follows:
#1) abab
#2) abba -- envelope rhyme
#3) aabb
#4) aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd -- chain rhyme
 Sonnet Style Poetry
A lyric poem of fourteen lines, following one or another of several set rhymeschemes. Critics of the sonnet have recognized varying classifications. The first,
the Italian sonnet, is distinguished by its bipartite division into the octave and the
sestet: the octave consisting of a first division of eight lines rhyming
abbaabba
and the sestet, or second division, consisting of six lines rhyming
cdecde, cdccdc, or cdedce.
On this twofold division the octave bears the burden; a doubt, a problem, a
reflection, a query, an historical statement, a Vision of the idea. The sestet eases
the load, resolves the problem or doubt, answers the query, solaces the yearning,
realizes the vision. Again it might be said that the octave presents the narrative,
states the proposition or raises a question; the sestet drives home the narrative
by making an abstract comment, applies the proposition, or solves the problem.
The English (Shakespearean) sonnet, on the other hand, is so different from the
Italian (though it grew from that form) as to permit of a separate classification.
Instead of the octave and sestet divisions, this sonnet characteristically embodies
four divisions: three quatrains (each with a rhyme-scheme of its own) and a
rhymed couplet. Thus the typical rhyme-scheme for the English sonnet is
abab cdcd efef gg.
 Villanelle Poetry
A Villanelle is a nineteen-line poem consisting of a very specific rhyming scheme:
aba aba aba aba aba abaa.
The first and the third lines in the first stanza are repeated in alternating order
throughout the poem, and appear together in the last two lines.
 Monorhyme Poetry
A Monorhyme is a poem in which all the lines have the same end rhyme
Refer to the handout with your specific style for examples.
Examples of Ballads:
Jesse
As Jesse looked around
she was goin' the other way.
Jesse made the wrong move
now there's nothin' he can say.
Sarah was real excited
to see her boyfriend Jess.
But he was more interested
in all of his success.
You see old Jess was sheriff
and he wore that badge so proud.
He was always boastful
when ever he got by a crowd.
As Jesse looked around
she was goin' the other way.
Jesse made the wrong move
now there's nothin' he can say.
One day Jess told the girls
that she was just a friend.
Then, when they all asked her
he just tried to make amend.
Right then Sarah asked him
just when that they'd be wed.
Old Jess just 'bout choked
and then his face turned red.
As Jesse looked around
she was goin' the other way.
Jesse made the wrong move
now there's nothin' he can say.
Sarah decided to go home
and leave old Jess right here.
Jess gave her face a slap
and took another sip of beer.
Then Ben the local preacher
had seen what Jess just did.
He shot old Jess in a fair fight
and helped them close the lid.
As Jesse looked around
she was goin' the other way.
Jesse made the wrong move
now there's nothin' he can say.
The Mermaid
by
Author Unknown
'Twas Friday morn when we set sail,
And we had not got far from land,
When the Captain, he spied a lovely mermaid,
With a comb and a glass in her hand.
Chorus
Oh the ocean waves may roll,
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloft
And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below
And the land lubbers lay down below.
Then up spoke the Captain of our gallant ship,
And a jolly old Captain was he;
"I have a wife in Salem town,
But tonight a widow she will be."
Chorus
Then up spoke the Cook of our gallant ship,
And a greasy old Cook was he;
"I care more for my kettles and my pots,
Than I do for the roaring of the sea."
Chorus
Then up spoke the Cabin-boy of our gallant ship,
And a dirty little brat was he;
"I have friends in Boston town
That don't care a ha' penny for me."
Chorus
Then three times 'round went our gallant ship,
And three times 'round went she,
And the third time that she went 'round
She sank to the bottom of the sea.
Examples of Haiku
wrath of the monsoon
lightning displays with heavy winds
here fast, gone faster
walk across sand
And find myself blistering
In the hot, hot heat
Falling to the ground,
I watch a leaf settle down
In a bed of brown.
Examples of Limericks:
I love ta see the morning sun
that's how I tell the days begun.
Birds all singing a happy song
it tis the place where I belong.
Far from school without the nun
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!'
There was a Young Lady whose chin,
Resembled the point of a pin;
So she had it made sharp,
And purchased a harp,
And played several tunes with her chin
Examples of Quatrain Poetry:
#1
I love the mountains in the fall,
as the leaves begin to turn.
Like decorations for the ball,
it makes my heart just yearn.
#2
Fall colors seem to transcend
with yellow, orange, and browns.
It'll soon cover all the towns
with a warm and hearty blend.
#3
The cool crisp autumn air
there's nothing that can compare.
To this color filled wonder land
what could ever be this grand.
Italian Sonnet Poetry:
London, 1802"
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
Oh! raise us up, return to us again;
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart;
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life's common way,
In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
"Sonnet LXXI"
Who will in fairest book of Nature know
How Virtue may best lodged in Beauty be,
Let him but learn of Love to read in thee,
Stella, those fair lines, which true goodness show.
There shall he find all vices' overthrow,
Not by rude force, but sweetest sovereignty
Of reason, from whose light those night-birds fly;
That inward sun in thine eyes shineth so.
And not content to be Perfection's heir
Thyself, dost strive all minds that way to move,
Who mark in thee what is in thee most fair.
So while thy beauty draws the heart to love,
As fast thy Virtue bends that love to good.
"But, ah," Desire still cries, "give me some food."
Examples of Shakespearean (English) Sonnets:
You cast your spell, upon my heart
and make me crave, your zest for life.
May it be so, I'll feel a part
with love so bold, they'll know it's rife.
My dearest dear, I live for thee
to see you smile, while holding hands.
With dreams so sweet, of you and me
a spoken word, with no demands.
A round gold ring, upon our hand
symbols of our, love for each other.
reminders of how, our love did expand
with me a dad, and you a mother.
Life has surely changed, over all the years
now were closer together, with love felt tears.
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Examples of Villanelle Poetry:
Way up high on the plateau.
Man and animals live free,
where the ponderosa's grow.
After the snow, all seems aglow,
on the rim with some degree.
Way up high on the plateau.
Eagles soar up with the crow,
and deer run wild and free.
Where the ponderosa's grow.
Bears grow fat and seem to slow,
as winter begins and now they flee .
Way up high on the plateau.
Rains fall and rivers flow,
as rainbow's paint a grand marquee.
Where the ponderosa's grow.
The ermine coating of the snow,
is the prettiest sight to see.
Way up high on the plateau ,
where the ponderosa's grow.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Examples of Monorhyme Poetry
I was sitting in my chair
wanting to become a millionaire
It won't happen I'm well aware
but I still think its very unfair
I have even said a little prayer
but I don't have that special flair
And my bodies in great despair
I think I look more like a pear
But at least I still have my hair
and a table to play solitaire
A break from my career,
to visit a new frontier.
Where life is not severe,
and stress will disappear.
I'll become a pioneer,
a new found volunteer.
To help this old sphere,
make it's air all clear.
We will persevere,
for I'm the brigadier.
So as I tip my beer,
lets offer up a cheer.
Lets make this our year
where everyone will be sincere.
Name______________________
Period_____________
As each group presents, please record the important information:
Group
Title of
poem
What is the
theme of
poem?
Who do you
think the
speaker of
the poem
is?
How is
structured,
styled poem
different
from freeverse poem?