Directions:
Number your paper from 1-8. Using your notes (or
your book if you have not taken good notes), identify
the poems below based on their characteristics.
Write the correct type of poem on YOUR OWN
PAPER. Do NOT write on this sheet.
1.
Green and speckled legs,
Hop on logs and lily pads
Splash in cool water.
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2.
The students all raced out the door,
the teacher just watched them and swore,
4.
Papa’s Fishing Hole
I place my tiny hand in his
as we walk to Papa’s Fishing Hole.
I hand him a wiggling night crawler
fighting for his life.
The deadly hook squishes
through the worm’s head,
and I watch the brown guts ooze out.
Papa throws the pole’s long arm back
and then forward.
The line lands in a merky spot
so much loss of face along the reedy shore.
he couldn't give chase
they'd nailed both his feet to the floor!
(From kingpoetry.com)
Now I get to reel it in.
Nothing yet, he says.
He casts again. I reel it in.
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Still nothing.
3. Disappointments
by Vivian Gilbert Zabel
Three time’s a charm, he says.
Every life has a room
He casts.
where memories are stored:
A strike.
A box of special occasions here,
We turn the crank together.
The fish jumps from the water
Shelves of shared laughter there.
and his colors form a rainbow
But back in the shadows
as he arches his body above the reeds.
Lurks a trunk locked tight,
My Papa handles him
Not to be opened and searched.
with the skill of a master
as I stop helping to watch him work.
There hide disappointments
A stiff jerk, a quick reel, a stiff jerk again.
Which darken every heart.
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The fish doesn’t have a chance, I yell.
I know. I know. I know, he says.
Word Bank: Narrative, Haiku, Free Verse, Ballad, Concrete, Limerick, Sonnet
-Elisabeth D. Babin
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5.
I love you, but I'm not in love with you.
I want your friendship minus your desire.
I would not lead you falsely or betray you.
I feel the tenderness, but not the fire.
I have no reason for my lack of yearning,
No explanation for what I don't feel,
No other love to whom I might be turning,
No anguish to suggest this isn't real.
Passion is a horse that knows no master,
And I cannot with fences make it stay.
It must run free towards daylight or disaster,
Awake to glory in no other way.
So I must say what you don't want to hear,
But it's a truth that both of us must bear.
7.
Seal
By: William Jay Smith
(From poemsforfree.com)
6.
The Mermaid
by
Author Unknown
'Twas Friday morn when we set sail,
And we had not got far from land,
When the Captain, he spied a lovely
mermaid,
With a comb and a glass in her hand.
Chorus
Oh the ocean waves may roll,
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloft
And the land lubbers lay down below, below,
below
And the land lubbers lay down below.
Then up spoke the Captain of our gallant
ship,
And a jolly old Captain was he;
"I have a wife in Salem town,
But tonight a widow she will be."
Word Bank: Narrative, Haiku, Free Verse, Ballad, Concrete, Limerick, Sonnet
Word Bank: Narrative, Haiku, Free Verse, Ballad, Concrete, Limerick, Sonnet