Limerick

A Limerick as a simple and short poetry form. The word derives from the Irish town of Limerick where it appeared in the 18 century.

Limericks only have five lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 of limericks rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 of limericks also rhyme with each other. Limericks are funny. They make the reader smile or chuckle. They often contain hyperbole, idioms and other figurative devices.

Example of limerick:

There once was a young man from Devizes

Whose ears were of different sizes

One was so small

It was no use at all

But the other won several prizes.

Basics of poetry writing

(lessons 27-28)

Sonnet

Sonnet is a form of lyric poetry. The word “sonnet” means little song or little sound. One of the best known sonnet writers is William /Shakespeare, who wrote 154 sonnets. A Shakespearean or English sonnet consists of 14 lines, each line containing ten syllables.

Task:

Read and translate a sonnet

My Mistress eyes

Sonnet 130 a poem by William Shakespeare

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damasked, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.

Free verse Winter Poem by Nikki Giovanni

once a snowflake fell

on my brow and I loved

it so much and I kissed

it and it was happy and called its cousins

and brothers and a web

of snow engulfed (поглотить) me then

I reached to love them all

and I squeezed (сжимать) them and they became

a spring rain and I stood perfectly

still and was a flower

Fog

Carl Sandburg

The fog comes

on little cat feet

It sits looking over harbor and city

on silent haunches(на корточках)

and then moves on

Task:

Write your own free verse