DIFFERENT POEM FORMS

I have provided teaching on each of the different poem forms listed, which you can access via the teachers page above. Therefore, if you need to learn about the definitions and qualities of each of the different poem forms, or would like ideas of how to start writing them, use the TEACHERS’ PAGE, DIFFERENT POETRY FORMS . Alternatively, if you would like to find specific examples of any particular poem form, you will find listed below examples of ACROSTICS, ALPHABET POEMS, ALTERNATIVE NURSERY RHYMES, FREE VERSE, HAIKUS, KENNINGS, LIST POEMS, SHAPE POEMS/CALLIGRAMS, and TRADITIONAL NURSERY RHYMES. On the other hand, if you are looking for examples of one particular poem form, you will find them listed in their own sub-category too make it even easier to find what you are looking for. Just use the drop down menu in the category POEMS FORMS and click on the poem type that you need examples of.

A Harvest/ Thanksgiving Song

8 May 2012

    This easily remembered Harvest/ Thanksgiving song is sung to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know it”.  It has 6 verses, going through the range of foods that we can give thanks for, and ending with thanks for family and friends.

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A Nursery Rhyme Harvest

8 May 2012

  I know that many schools have the children perform harvest / thanksgiving poems and songs at their harvest celebration, so this one is a little bit of both. The nursery rhymes provide the narration for the main poem, and I have simply amended them to be appropriate to harvest-time.

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Tesco:YOUR Comments Have Been Noted! Poem 3

6 May 2012

This is the third and current poem in our campaign….please send it to philip.clarke@uk.tesco.com  to persuade Tesco to sell ONLY FAIRTRADE BANANAS, so that we can be assured that the plantation owners are receiving a fair price.

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An Always Person

1 May 2012

This list poem is a fantastic encouragement to the ‘Always children’ who can so easily be overlooked and feel unnoticed as they never have any one special moment  for which to be rewarded or encouraged.   This poem can be printed and personalised as a lovely presentation certificate 

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Child Miners in Victorian Britain

19 April 2012

I have put together a page of winning children’s poems by Fitzwilliam Primary School on the topic of Victorian child miners.  They include lots of figurative language such as alliteration, personification, similes and metaphors, and different poem forms such as acrostics, list poems and senses poems.

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Queen Primary World War Two children’s poems

19 April 2012

    Having done a World War Two workshop with year five children at Queen Primary, they produced some fantastic poems of different forms, including acrostic & shape poems, using lots of figurative language, such as alliteration and metaphors.  Click here to go to the page of World War Two poems that the children wrote.

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The Royal Reply

2 April 2012

      This funny letter poem has rhyme, rhythm, and lots of word play in the appropriate language to make it suitable as a performance poem, imagined to be written as a reply from the queen to my Royal Pardon poem.  It is also an excellent example of alliteration and consonance poetry.

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From Prince to King

6 March 2012

    Can you recognise this person from the descriptive kenning?  The poem deliberately starts with the vague characteristics, and progresses towards the finer details that make the subject clearer.

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Evacuee

6 March 2012

    This rhyming, rhythmical shape poem is written in a list format but in the shape of a suitcase and includes a metaphor and a couple of moments of alliteration.  Thinking of the moment during World War Two when a child was evacuated to the country, I tried to put all of the thoughts […]

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Escalating Ambition

3 March 2012

  This shape poem is just a bit of fun, inspired by a true story of when I achieved a very odd ambition….

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