Creative Nonfiction

Poetry
 If every country has myths,
legends, folktales transferred
orally from one generation to
another, before they were inked
onto paper, then posted online,
like short stories and novels,
you will discover that even
poetry started as an oral
tradition.
 Poetry is a writing that formulates a
concentrated imaginative awareness of
experience in language chosen and arranged
to create specific emotional response
through meaning, sound, and rhythm.
Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = I create) is
an art form in which human language is
used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to,
or instead of, its notional and semantic
content. It consists largely of oral or literary
works in which language is used in a
manner that is felt by its user and audience
to differ from ordinary prose.
 POETRY

KINDS OF FORMS OF WORD

POETRY POETRY SOUNDS
NARRA Line Rhy
LYRIC / me Alliterati
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POETR Vers Sche on
POETR
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Y Stan Mete
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Od Epi Consonan
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 POETRY

KINDS OF FORMS OF WORD

POETRY POETRY SOUNDS
NARRA Line Rhy
LYRIC / me Alliterati
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POETR
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 FORMS OF
POETRY Line/
Verse
Verse: A line of a poem, or a group of lines within
a long poem; grouped words arranged in a row.
Example:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
-"The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost
 FORMS OF
POETRY Stan
za
Stanza: A series of lines/verse grouped together and
separated by an empty line from other stanzas
(First Stanza)
I love to write
Day and night
What would my heart do
But cry, sigh, and be blue
If I could not write

(Second Stanza)
Writing feels good
And I know it should
Who could have knew
That what I do
Is write, write, write.
-"I Love to Write Poems," Unknown
FORMS OF
POETRY Rhy
me
Rhyme: Repetition of
words that end with
similar sounds; usually at
the end of a line of the
poem.
Example:
FORMS OF
POETRY Rhy
me
Sche
me
Rhyme Scheme: is the pattern of
sounds that repeats at the end of a line
or stanza/ structure of a rhyming
pattern.
Example:
ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH- Alternate
Rhyme
AA BB CC and DD- Couplet
AAA-Triplet
 ABAB CDCD EFEF GG-Shakespearean
This is an ABAB pattern of rhyme scheme.
Neither Out Far nor in Deep (By  Robert Frost)
The people along the sand            (A)
All turn and look one way.             (B)
They turn their back on the land.   (A)
They look at the sea all day.          (B)
As long as it takes to pass            (C)
A ship keeps raising its hull;         (D)
The wetter ground like glass         (C)
Reflects a standing gull.               (D)

The following example uses an AABB rhyme scheme.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (By Donald Barthelme)
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,                   (A)
How I wonder what you are.                 (A)
Up above the world so high,                 (B)
Like a diamond in the sky.                    (B)
FORMS OF
POETRY
Rhyt
hm
Rhythm: A beat/pattern
created with sounds: hard
- soft, long - short,
bouncy, quiet - loud, weak
– strong.
Example:
good EVening, DEAR.
FORMS OF
POETRY Met
er
Meter: measurement of stressed and
unstressed syllables.
Example:
Iambic Pentameter
Shall I comPARE thee TO a SUMmer’s DAY?
Thou ART more LOVEly AND more TEMPerATE:
Rough WINDS do SHAKE the DARling BUDS of MAY,
And SUMmer’s LEASE hath ALL too SHORT a DATE:
…
So LONG as MEN can BREATHE, or EYES can SEE,
So LONG lives THIS, and THIS gives LIFE to THEE.
FORMS OF
POETRY

For
m
Form: the arrangement of
words, lines, verses,
rhymes, and other features
to fit together.
FORMS OF
POETRY

Dicti
on

Diction: the selection of specific words 

FORMS OF
POETRY
Imag
es

Images: the mental

pictures the poet creates
through language
 FORMS OF
POETRY
RHYTHM RHY SCH
(Stressed ME EM
METER FROM ABOVE and E
Unstressed
(Cale Young Rice) Syllable)
S
T
A What do I care if the trees are LINE 1 A
N
Z
bare LINE 2 B
A And the hills are dark LINE 3 C RHYME
1
And the skies are gray. Bare-Air
S
LINE 4 A Dark-Cark
T
Gray-Way
A What do I care for chill in the
LINE air
5 B
N
Z From crows that cark LINE 6 C
A At the rough wind’s way.
2
You should take note that vers libre, also
known as free verse, has its own rules as
well. Free verse originated in Paris
where the poetic poem with 12 syllable
each line was practiced. The
Romanticists grew tired of the
traditional form. They wanted to free it,
to let it find its own shape.
Kinds of
Poetry

1. Lyric Poetry: 
• Comes from the Greek word “lyre”
• Expresses deep personal emotions or feelings.
• Maybe sung/ accompanied with music.
• All songs can be considered as poetry.
It is any poem with one speaker (not necessarily
the poet) who expresses strong thoughts and
feelings. Most poems, especially modern ones, are
lyric poems. 
LYRIC
POETR
Y
Od
e
1. Ode: About positive topics;
truth, love, art, freedom,
justice
Expression of a writer about a
particular person or subject.
Example: Ode To My Pearl Of
The Orient Seas(Philippines) -
Poem by Jett Franco
LYRIC
POETR
Y Eleg
y
2. Elegy: It is a lyric poem that mourns
the dead. It has no set metric or stanzaic
pattern, but it usually begins by
reminiscing about the dead person, then
laments the reason for the death, and
then resolves the grief by concluding
that death leads to immortality.
Feeling of loss and sadness (mournful)
Example: O Captain, My Captain by
Walt Whitman
LYRIC
POETR
Y Sonn
et
3. Sonnet: It is a lyric poem
consisting of 14 lines; with 10
syllable on each line. There are
two basic kinds of sonnets: the
Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnet and
the Shakespearean (or
Elizabethan/English) sonnet.
Example: Sonnet 18 by William
Shakespeare
 Sonnet XVIII
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ows’t;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
so long lives this, and gives life to thee.
The pattern in this case is abab/cdcd/efef/gg.
Kinds of
Poetry

2. Narrative Poetry: It is a poem that tells a

story; its structure resembles the plot line of a
story (i.e. the introduction of conflict and
characters, rising action, climax and the
denouement).
• chronological order
• tells a story/ series of events
• story in poem form
• may or may not rhyme
• short/ long
• it has beginning, middle, and end
NARRA
TIVEPO
ETRY Ep
ic
1. Epic: 
It is a long narrative poem
in elevated style
recounting the deeds of a
legendary or historical
hero or narrates the
journey of a hero or a
nation.
  Example: Biag ni Lam-
Ang ni Pedro Bucaneg
NARRA
TIVEPO
ETRY
Ball
ad

2.Ballad:
 It is a narrative poem that
has a musical rhythm and
can be sung.
Example: Folk Songs
NARRA
TIVEPO
ETRY Metric
al
Roman
ce
3. Metrical Romance:
A metrical romance, or chivalric romance,
is a type of narrative poem which typically
centers on courtly love, knights, and
chivalric deeds. 
Deals with emotions and is told in a simple,
straightforward and realistic manner. It has
a happy ending.
Example: Florante at Laura ni Francisco
Balagtas
Haiku

Haiku: It has an unrhymed verse

form having three lines (a tercet)
and usually 5,7,5 syllables,
respectively. It's usually considered
a lyric poem.
 WORD
SOUNDS
Alliterat
ion

1. Alliteration: the repetition

of initial sounds on the same
line or stanza .
Example:
 Big bad Bob bounced bravely.
 WORD
SOUNDS
Assona
nce
2. Assonance: the repetition
of vowel sounds (anywhere in the
middle or end of a line or stanza)

Example:
Tilting at windmills
 WORD
SOUNDS
Consona
nce
3. Consonance: the repetition of
consonant sounds (anywhere in
the middle or end of a line or
stanza)

Example:
And all the air a solemn stillness
holds. 
 WORD
SOUNDS
Onomatop
oeia
4. Onomatopoeia: words that
sound like of which they describe.

Example:
 Boom! Crash! Pow! Quack! Moo!
 WORD
SOUNDS
Parallel
Structure

5. Parallel Structure: a form of

repetition where the order of verbs
and nouns is repeated; it may involve
exact words, but it more importantly
repeats sentence structure
Example:
"I came, I saw, I conquered".
 ACTIVITY:
Make a poetry about your
CHOSEN SUBJECT.
(Family, Friends, Living Things or
Anything under the sun) Take a
picture as a proof of your REAL
SUBJECT, then attach it to your
poetry.
Further instructions will be sent to
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