Conventional

Forms
TANAGA
- A type of Filipino short poem
- it consists of four lines with seven
syllables each with the same rhyme at the
end of each line
- 7-7-7-7 (syllabic pattern)
- AABB (rhyme scheme)
Palay siyang matino,
Nang humangi’y yumuko;
Nguni’t muling tumayo
Nagkabunga ng ginto

Palay ni Ildefonso Santos

See waves foaming, wash the shore.
The castle is there no more.
No windows remain; no door.
Roof of sky; a sandy floor.
DIONA
- A pre-Hispanic rhyming poem
- With three lines and seven
syllables in each line expressing
a complete thought
isang mapulang apol
sa’yo lagi kong ungol
na ayaw kong pumatol

Eng Translation
like a red apple
each day I so long for you
to depart from me
HAIKU

- A traditional Japanese Poetry

- Three lines
- 5 syllables for the first and third line
- 7 syllables for the second line
- Subjects in haikus are easily recognized
I am first with five
Then seven in the middle --
Five again to end.

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Green and speckled legs,
Hop on logs and lily pads
Splash in cool water.
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.
SONNET
- A sonnet can be broken down into four
sections called quatrains. The first three
quatrains contain four lines each and use an
alternating rhyme scheme. The final
quatrain consists of just two lines which
both rhyme.
SONNET
A strict rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme of a
Shakespearean sonnet is ABAB / CDCD / EFEF /
GG (note the four distinct sections in the rhyme
scheme).

Written in iambic Pentameter. Sonnets are

written in iambic pentameter, a poetic meter with
10 beats per line made up of alternating
unstressed and stressed syllables.
SONNET
WHAT IS IAMBIC PENTAMETER?
Iambic Pentameter has:

• Ten syllables in each line

• Five pairs of alternating unstressed and
stressed syllables
• The rhythm in each line sounds like:
ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-
BUM
Each quatrain should progress the poem as follows:
First quatrain: This should establish the subject of the
sonnet.
Number of lines: 4. Rhyme Scheme: ABAB

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips’ re
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
Second quatrain: This should develop the sonnet’s theme.
Number of lines: 4. Rhyme Scheme: CDCD

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.
Third quatrain: This should round off the sonnet’s
theme.
Number of lines: 4. Rhyme Scheme: EFEF

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.
Fourth quatrain: This should act as a conclusion to the
sonnet.Number of lines: 2. Rhyme Scheme: GG

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as

rare
As any she belied with false compare.
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.
Free verse
a literary device that can be defined as
poetry that is free from limitations.
Free verse poems have no regular meter or
rhythm.
They do not follow a proper rhyme scheme;
these poems do not have any set rules.
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,

I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer
grass.

Song of Myself – Walk Whitman

“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drain …
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees
In some melodious plot…
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.”

Ode to a nightingale – John Keats

 EXPERIMENTAL TEXTS

A product of modernist and postmodernist poetry.

It explores and emphasizes innovation.

Individuals who write experimental poetry don't always

write with a conscious awareness of where a work fits
into an aesthetic range.

TYPOGRAPHY
The act or art of expressing
by means of types or symbols
Brittle Bird
your smile breaks me.
it shakes the dust off my bones, only
to shatter them into a million pieces. when i'm
trembling, the thought of you warms me back to
life, only to kill me when i no longer sense the ice
snaking up to my throat. you twisted my heart
(without trying...without. even. knowing.)
and the wrinkles of it peeled right off.
i don't know what i was thinking
when i let this mess begin,
but i do know that
i never want
it to
en
d;
.
 Genre-crossing texts
is a genre in fiction that blends themes and elements from two or more
different genres

a. prose poetry is poetry that is not written in verse and contains

other poetic attributes, such as rhythm and metaphors.

Prose poetry:
o Looks like prose (written in paragraphs)
o Focuses on images
o Includes instances of poetic meter
o Contains language play, such as repetition
Chad Davidson
Refinishing

Wood has no future. It saves all scratches. At twenty-three I helped a

woman sand her table down to grain. I touched every inch of that table,
used a belt-sander but took the corners by hand, not wanting to burn
through. I had it clean in days, then set to clearcoating. I could count my
years in its surface as the tiny histories of the people who had eaten there
vanished.

When we lie together at night and I'm asleep, do I ever run my fingers
down your back? I have the sensation sometimes of running underneath
the skin, like a splinter.
Francis Ponge
THE YOUNG MOTHER

A few days after childbirth, the woman's beauty is transformed.

Her face, often bent over her chest, grows slightly longer.
Her eyes, attentively peering down at a nearby object, occasionally look up,
faintly distracted. Their gaze is filled with confidence, but seeking
continuation. Her arms and hands bend together in a crescent, mutually
sustaining. Her legs, grown thin and weakened, are gladly seated, knees
drawn up high. The distended belly, livid, still very tender; the abdomen
readjusts to rest, to nights under covers.
...But soon up and about, the tall body maneuvers through the bunting hung
out conveniently high and low, which squares of wash, which from time to
time are grasped by a free hand, are crinkled, tested knowledgeably, then
folded or hung out again depending on the verdict.
Performance Poetry

A poetry that is specifically composed for or

during a performance before an audience.

During the 1980s, the term came into popular

usage to describe poetry written or composed
for performance rather than print
distribution, mostly open to improvisation.