Writing Different Poetry Forms

Featured are several examples of poetry that are fairly easy to grasp, as they follow rigid structures and rhyme schemes: villanelles, haikus, sonnets, and limericks. Instead of analyzing poems, this gives students the opportunity to create their own and become familiar with structure, form, and rhyme. This is a great opportunity to create a poem a day and by the end, students are able to put together their own little poetry anthology. Additionally, there is a small section on found poetry, for which you will need an old book to cut up. Particularly, this is a nice way to finish up an intense unit of analyzing poems, as it gives all the room in the world for creativity.