- Acrostic
Each line of this poem starts with a specific letter from a word. For example, if I want to write a poem about a dino, then the first line would start with a D, the second an I, the third a N, the fourth would be an O. There can be only 1 word per line, a phrase, or a whole sentence. Here are some examples(separated by slashes)
Title: Dino
Dilophosaurus / Dauntless, tromping through the lands
Indosuchus / Intelligentially escaping wicked “hands”.
Neovenator / Never yielding back
Oryctodromeus / Overwhelming features is what they don’t lack.
Tip: Try not to use adjectives that don’t describe your topic specifically enough. For example, you might write “Creative”, “Awesome”, and “Terrific” in a poem about a cat. However, many things are creative, awesome, and terrific, so the reader may not understand what is being described. Try not to write half a sentence for a line of poetry, unless the line where you will connect the other half has a welcoming beat when spoken so the poem sounds more fluent. Also try to not write an ongoing sentence (e.g. uses four whole lines.)
- Alliteration
An alliteration poem has lots of a certain letter. Popular example:
Title: Betty Botter
Betty Botter bought some butter.
“But”, she said, “the butter’s bitter!”
“If I put it in my batter,”
“It will make my batter bitter.”
So she bought a bit of butter
Better than her bitter butter
And she put it in her batter
And the batter was not bitter
So t’was better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter.
- Colour
A colour poem is about a colour. Example:
Orange is the sun.
Orange tastes like carrots.
Orange smells like the pollen of a marigold.
Orange looks like a precious sunstone.
Orange feels like the fur of a tiger.
Orange makes me curl up in warmth.
- Concrete
A concrete poem is a cluster of words formed to resemble a picture. Example:
Tip: You can vary the size, colour, and font of words to “spice” your poem up. For example, instead of writing “fire” in tiny black letters, writing it in huge, red letters will let the reader imagine your topic more.
- Rhyming Couplet
A rhyming couplet poem is hard to write. It usually has six lines of poetry. First, write 1 line of poetry. Count the amount of syllables in the line. Carefully write another line with the same amount of syllables as the first line. The last words in both lines have to rhyme as well. Do it two more times. Here are some examples:
Title: The Adult Baby
He was thirty-one years in age,
but still slept in a baby’s cage.
Then came in a dad,
who said, “I’m not glad!”
“If you don’t stop I will pray”
“and then you will obey!”
Title: My Big White Cake
My big white cake
looks like a crate.
I made it one fine day,
carefully by the bay.
Then I moved my excited jaw,
now I know it has no large flaw!
- Simile
A simile poem is simple. There should be about 8 lines of poetry. Each line should compare your topic to something else (e.g: “imagination is as varied as a big bowl of salad”).
