Hello, everyone! It is I, Ceder, and today I made a book about poems and how to write them (Hopefully I did a good job on explaining them.), and hopefully you will know a lot about them, how to write them when we are finished! This is what we are going over today, please enjoy :)

Haiku:

Sonnet:

Limerick: 

Acrostic:

Ode:

Elegy:

Villanelle:

Balled:

Haiku:

    So, the haiku was the first one that I learned. And it is very easy to do! And they are very fun to read too! 

    The Haiku has to have 3 lines, or it usually does...the ones I've seen usually have three lines. 

    So, as you know, a poem has to rhyme, but the first line of the poem has to have five syllables. 

    The second line has to have seven syllables. And finally, the third line has to have five syllables too =) 

    So it has a 5 7 5 rule, basically. Usually, Haiku's are about the seasons, but you can do it about anything! 

Here, go to the next page (page four) and I'll do an example! Hopefully 

   that helps!!

 I'll do an example

 "Below the water

Waits gold, silver, brass, and more

For someone to come." 

Hopefully this example helps.

Sonnet:

    The Sonnet is very fun to make! You can say, 'the Sonnet has fourteen lines and spread out lines!' to help you remember what to do in this poem =)

 A sonnet is a poem of 14 lines that reflects upon a single issue or idea. It usually takes a turn, called a “volta,” about 8 lines in, and then resolves the issue by the end. The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (The explanation is from the internet, it was hard to explain, lol =D) 

Go to the next page for an example =D

I’ve seen it rain on sunny days
And seen the darkness flash with light
And even lightning turn to haze,
Yes, frozen snow turn warm and bright
And sweet things taste of bitterness
And what is bitter taste most sweet
And enemies their love confess
And good, close friends no longer meet.

Yet stranger things I’ve seen of love
Who healed my wounds by wounding me.
The fire in me he quenched before;
The life he gave was the end thereof,
The fire that slew eluded me.
Once saved from love, love now burns more.

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This is a poem I found online, I didn't actually make it, if you wondering at all =)

Hopefully this helps. 

Oh, the with the poems, when it says rhyme scheme, and shows something like this, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, that means for the first line it is an A, so you come up with a rhyme, and then you move onto the next ryme which is the B, and then the third line is once again an A, which you have to have the third line rhyme with the 1st line, if that makes sense. 

Limerick: 

So, the Limericks are really fun to make, one of my favorites! (I like them all, so, idk.) 

    So the limerick has to have five lines. The rhyme scheme for this one is A A B B A, so an easy way to remember the rhyme scheme (at least for me) is to remember it like the name AABBA. The Limericks are fun to write =) Here is an example that I made, hopefully it helps you =)

"I need a front door for my hall

The replacement I bought was too tall.

So I hacked it and chopped it,

And carefully lopped it,

And now the dumb thing is too small."

Acrostic:

Okay, the thing about the acrostic is that you have to decide what to write about, then you have to write your word down vertacally. So by the end of the poem, on the left side going down, it spells a word...well, you DON'T have to do it only on the left side, but traditionally it is spelt on the left. Here I'll do an example and explain form there, because I am not doing a good job on my own, lol. 

"Splashing in the water.

Under the warm summer sun.

My friends are at the beach. 

Mosquitoes are buzzing all around.

Eating all the ice cream cones. 

Ready to enjoy this time of year." 

    Okay, now do you see the poem, and in each line there is this one letter, and by the end, the left side with all the letters spell out a word. Am I making sense at all? It is very hard to explain.  

Ode:

    Okay, finally, here is a poem that is a little bit easier to explain. Yay!

So the Ode is a poem that is supposed to be happy! The poem is usually (And by that, I mean traditionally) supposed to celabrate a person, place, or thing. Here is an example that I got from the internet! =)

"Roses are beautiful  

But you are more than a rose

You are wonderful 

Either you choose to sleep or pose

Butterflies are fragile

Than a butterfly you, you are gentler