Other Forms of

Poetry
A. Experimental Poetry
Experimentation is one aspect of all Modernist and
Postmodernist poetry, but experimental poetry
makes a special point of innovation, sometimes in
the belief that current poetry is stereotyped and
inadequate, but more often for its own sake.
 1. Concrete Poetry/ Shape Poetry
Is a poem whose
layout or
typography implies
the subject of the
poem.
 2. Prose Poem
Is a kind of poetry that is written in paragraphs which
contains language play, images, and with instances of
poetic meter.
 A SELTZER BOTTLE
Any neglect of many particles cracking, any neglect of this makes it what
is the lead in color and certainly discolor in silver. The use of this is
manifold. Supposing a certain time selected is assured, suppose it is even
necessary, suppose no other extract is permitted and no more handling is
needed, suppose the rest of the message is mixed with a very long slender
needle and even if it could be any black border, supposing all this together
made a dress and suppose it was actual, suppose the mean way to state it
was occasional, if you suppose this in August and even more melodiously,
if you suppose this even in the necessary incident of there certainly being
no middle in summer and winter, suppose this and an elegant settlement a
very elegant settlement is more than of consequence, it is not final and
sufficient and substituted. This which was so kindly a present was
constant.
 3. Performance Poetry/Spoken-Word Poetry
Its significant
characteristics is that it Hindi Kasi Ako Siya Para Mahalin
Mo
is being recited in front
Alam kong talo na ako,
of the audience in
Wala pa man sa dulo
public places. It uses
Pero ayoko namang
vernacular language
Basta na lamang sumuko.
and appealing oral
Natatakot kasi ako na
elements like music, Manaili ka lang isang “sana”
recordings, and other Natakot kasi ako sa
elements of “paano kung naging tayong dalawa?”
signification.
B. Forms of Creative Poetry
Conventional Forms:
a. Tanaga
b. Diona
c. Haiku
d. Sonnet
A. Tanaga
is a type of Filipino KAIBIGAN
poem, consisting of four Ni Emelita Perez Baes
lines with seven syllables
each with the same rhyme Ang katoto kapag tunay
at the end of each line--- Hindi ngiti ang pang-alay
that is to say a 7-7-7-7- Kindi isang katapatan
syllabic verse, with an Ng mataas na pagdamay
AABB rhyme scheme.
c. Haiku
A form of centuries old Japanese poetry that consists
of seventeen syllables and has nature as its subject or
theme.
Example:
As I lay and gaze
Blue skies and white clouds above
Billowing up high
d. Sonnet

is a poetic form which originated in Italy; Giacomo

Da Lentini is credited with its invention. The term
sonnet is derived from the Italian word sonetto
( from Old Provencal sonnet a little poem, from son
song, from Latin sonus a sound)
 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:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And too often is his gold complexion dim’d:
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance or nature changing course untrimm’d;
 C. Other Forms of Experimental Poetry
1. Acrostic Poetry 8. Name Poems
2. Cinquain 9. Sound Words
10. Doodle Art
3. Couplet 11. Concrete Poems
4. Diamonte 12. Alphabet Poems
5. Limericks 13. Typography
14. Genre-Crossing Texts
6. Haiku
a. Prose-Poetry
7. tanka b. Performative Poetry
1.Acrostic
Poetry Example:
In acrostic poems,
the first letters of L oves to write articles
each line are A lways humorous
aligned vertically to U nique in every way
form a word. The R unning, craving for news and information
word often is the E xceptionally bright
subject of the L earners
poem.
2. Cinquain
Are five lines long with a certain number of syllables or
words in each. It does not rhyme.

Line 1: Title (1 word syllable)

Line 2: Description or example of the title (2 words or 4
syllables)
Line 3: Action about the title (a 3 word phrase or 6 syllables
Line 4: a 4 word phrase describing a feeling about the title
or 8 syllables
Line 5: Synonym for the title (1 word- 2 syllable)
Example:
Spaghetti
Messy, spicy
Slurping, sliding, falling
Between my plate and mouth
Delicious
3. Couplet
In poetry, it is a pair of lines. Typically, they rhyme and
have the same meter. They make up a unit or complete
thought. The couplet is the easiest of the verse forms. It
consists of two lines with an end rhyme.
Example:
Whether or not we find what we are seeking
Is idle, biologically speaking.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
4. Diamonte
Are easy poems to write. You need to think of a subject and its
opposite.
First Line: one word (subject)
Second Line: two adjectives describing the subject
Third Line: three words ending in –ing telling about the subject
Fourth Line: four words, the first two describe the subject and the
last two describe its opposite
Fifth Line: three words ending in –ing telling about the opposite
Sixth Line: two adjectives describing the opposite
Seventh Line: one word ( opposite from the first line)
Example:
Autumn
Crisp, colourful
Blowing, falling, crunching
Pumpkins, Thanksgiving, flowers, Easter
Budding, blooming, awakening
Sunny, new
spring
5. Limerick
is a funny little poem containing five lines. The last
words of the first, second and fifth lines rhyme with
each other (A) and the last words of the third and fourth
lines rhyme with each other so the pattern is AABBA. It
should also have a rhythm pattern, like the DUM da da
DUM da da DUM for the first, second, and fifth lines (A)
and da da DUM da da DUM for the third and fourth lines
(B). Make sure your limerick has the pattern by reciting if
with “da” for all unaccented or unstressed syllables and
“DUM” for all the accented or stressed syllables.
Example:
1. There once was a girl named Cheryl
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
2. Who dreamed she was in great peril
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
3. She awoke with a fright
da da DUM da da DUM
4. When she discovered the sight
da da DUM da da DUM
5. The monster was just a small squirrel.
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
Example:
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.
-Edward Lear
6. Haiku
 brief Japanese verse form of poem consisting of three
lines and seventeen syllables. It is very short and has 5-7-5
syllable structure with 5 syllables in the first line, 7
syllables in the second line, and 5 syllables in the third line.
Example:

As I lay and gaze

Blue skies and white clouds above
Billowing up high
7. Tanka
is another form Wind
of Japanese Wind blowing my face
poetry that Making my cheeks rosy red
consists of 31 It’s biting my nose
syllables (5-7-5-7- And chilling through all my
7).The themes for bones
Tanka are love,
It is pushing me along
nature, seasons,
and friendship.
8. Name Poems A whimsical, four-line
A.Clerihew biographical poem invented
by Edmund Clerihew
a simple rhymed verse Bentley. The first line is the
that has four-line poem name of the poem’s subject,
in which line 1 rhymes usually a famous person put
with line 2, and line 3 in an absurd light. The
rhymes with rhyme 4. It rhyme scheme is AABB, and
has no regular rhythm the rhymes are often forced.
and contains a humorous The line length and meter
reference to a famous are irregular.
person.
Example:
Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.
8. Sound Words
The pronunciation of some words– like boom, hiss, and
buzz--- echo their meanings. Such words are said to be
onomatopoeic.
Examples:
“Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff. Ding-dong, ding-
dong. The little train rumbled over the tracks.”
9. Doodle Art
is an unfocused,
unconscious drawing
made while a person’s
attention is otherwise
occupied. These are
drawings that can have
concrete representational
meaning or may just be
abstract shapes.
9. Concrete Poem
What a concrete poem does is to act out the
meaning of a word. Its emphasis is on the visual.
10. Alphabet Poem
 if you like to play
scrabble, you’ll probably
like to make alphabet Felt good. However, in
poems. Begin your first
word with A, your second
with B, and so on, until
you come to Z. Or go
through the alphabet
from Z to A.
Elephant In School
A big colorful
Darling elephant
June knew little.
Mainly now
Only per quarter
Read stupid tales
Until very
Weighted X-am
Yelded zero.
11. Typography
is often thought of in its practical form, as text
on a web page or printed material. A designer
may look at typography in the way that it will
impact their design, considering aspects such as
spacing, leading, weight and size.
12. Genre-Crossing Texts (hybrid genre)
is a genre in fiction that blends themes and
elements from two or more different genres. As
opposed to the literary and political conservatism
of most genre fiction, cross-genre writing offers
opportunities for opening up debates and
stimulating discussion.
A. Prose Poetry
B. Performance Poetry
Example: (Prose Poetry)
Janet Kaplan
Little Theory
Away it skipped,
A machine named
Blowing bubbles and
Universe knew about
Careful not to step on
Itself what it knew at
Father’s clock
Present, nothing more.
Performance Poetry
is poetry that is specifically composed for or
during a performance before an audience.
During the 1980’s, the term came into popular
usage to describe poetry written or composed
for performance rather than print distribution.
 D. Tone

a.Free-Verse Poems
b.Rhyming Poem
c.Photo Essay Poem
Tone
is a literary compound of composition, which shows
the attitudes toward the subject and toward the
audience implied in a literary work. It can be formal,
informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious,
ironic, condescending, or many other possible
attitudes. Works of literature are often conceptualized
as having at least one theme, or central question about
a topic; how the theme is approached within the work
constitutes the work’s tone.
a. Free Verse
is an open form of poetry. It does not use
consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any
particular structure. Robert Frost commented
that writing free verse was like “ playing tennis
without a net.”
 After the Sea-Ship
By Walt Whitman
after the Sea-Ship---after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,
Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:
Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,
Waves, undulating waves---liquid, uneven, emulous waves,
Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves
b. Rhyming Poem
Kinds:
Probably the a. Masculine b. Feminine
most noticeable  it occurs  it occurs when
feature of the when the the final
fixed forms is sound-alike syllables are
rhyme. Words syllables are unstressed.
rhyme when stressed.
they end in Hey diddle diddle
Jack and Jill The cat and the fiddle
syllable that Went up the hill
sound alike.
c. Photo Essay
is a set or series of photographs that are
intended to tell a story or evoke a series of
emotions in the viewer. It often shows pictures
in deep emotional stages