Welcome back to my post.
Now I don’t really like to boast,
But if your like me,
You’d like to be,
On the beautiful west coast.
Do you know what type of poem that is? It’s called a limerick. A limerick is a fairly common type of poem that you have probably heard before. Limericks are usually more humorous poems that always have five lines. They follow the pattern of AABBA, meaning that all of the A’s rhyme with each other and vice versa for the B’s. To make that even more clear, the first, second, and fifth line all rhyme, and the third and forth lines rhyme with only each other and are also shorter than the others.
Other popular types of poetry are:
And those are only a few!
Poetry can be used to share messages, tell stories, feel emotions, make someone laugh, and practically every other thing you can think of can be conveyed through poetry! You probably would have written some in Elementry school for Mothers or Father’s Day.
I personally really like to read and write poetry in my free time. (correction- I actually have no free time because my horse has been oh so generous and filled all my free time for me.)
One of my favourite poetry authors is Edgar Allan Poe. My favourite poem of his is rather famous, its called The Raven.
It’s a rather dark poem, as most of Poe’s literature is, but I think that I could read it 100 times and like it all the same.
Anyhoo I think that my post should end here with a little poetry prompt for you;
I prompt you to write a poem about someone or something that you love. It can be any type of poem but I would suggest a sonnet or an ode.
Thank you for reading.
As always, Brooke.