ALPHABET POEMS
We’ve already written an acrostic poem this year, where a word is written vertically:
A
M
E
R
I
C
A
Each of these letters will then start a line of the poem. Title your poem.
“Friday Afternoon”
A
Man
Eats ribs while
Reading an
Interesting book
Called
Aardvark Rodeo.
Pretty simple, right?
Alphabet poems are also really very simple: Write a “run” of the alphabet (six lines or longer) vertically. Each letter will start a line of the poem, like so:
“Loneliness” “Cozy Christmas”
Alone Bundled
Bored Children
Cold Decorating
Deserted Everybody’s
Every Fireplaces,
Friend Giving
Gone Happiness
Inside.
Like an acrostic, the lines of an alphabet poem can contain a single word, several words, or be an entire sentence.
Directions: Write one good alphabet poems. Your poem must be at least eight lines long.
Limericks
A Limerick is a five-line stanza written for fun and meant to be funny. There is humor in what it says, and its rhyme and rhythm add to the fun.
The pattern of rhyme is A A B B A.
The third and fourth lines are shorter than the rest.
The rhythm of the poem is the same as in “Hickory Dickory Dock”.
Usually the last line gives the real point of the Limerick or a surprise ending.
Examples: There was a young lady from Niger(ia)
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside,
And a smile on the face of the tiger.
A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot
Said the two to the tutor,
“Is it harder to toot or
To tutor two tooters to toot?”
There was a young man from the city,
Who met what he thought was a kitty.
He gave it a pat,
And said, “Nice little cat!”
And they buried his clothes out of pity.
A cheerful old bear at the zoo
Could always find something to do.
When it bored him to go
On a walk to and fro,
He reversed it, and walked fro and to.