Blaine+Crawford-+Forms+of+Poetry,+Figures+of+Speech

__//**Forms** of Poetry//__: **Lyric Poem** - expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. Dying By: Emily Dickinson

I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm

Song of Myself By Walt Whitman I cellebrate myself, and sing myself And what I assume you shall assume For every atom belonging to me ad good belongs to you I loaf and invite my soul I learn and loafat my ease observing a spear of summer grass **Haiku**- is a japanese poem which consists of 3 lines and 17 syllables line1: 5 syllables line 2: 7 syllables line 3: 5 syllables The sky is so Blue The sun is so warm up high I love the summer Example: A Game of Chess By:Gwen Harwood[|The Game of Chess] **Ballad**-A poem that tells a story[|Ballata 5] //__Figures of Speech__//: **Simile**- is comparing something using like or as The car was like a monster truck with those big wheels. **Metaphor**- is comparing something without using like or as Life is a journey, you never know what to expect. **Personification**-
 * Fre ****e Verse**-is composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set metrical pattern
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Italian/ Petrarchan – Sonnet- ** is a 14 line peoem about a single theme with a standard rhyme scheme
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Catalog Poem **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- is a list of things[|Catalog poem examples]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">direct- are metaphors with a clear message.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">implied- is usually not direct
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">extended