Poetic Forms -- Limerick and Haiku

This week we are working on two different poetic forms: the haiku and the limerick. You are responsible for completing 5 haiku and 3 limericks. Use your class handout for information about the form--its construction and its "purpose."

They should all be typed and titled.

Haiku should be:

• 3 lines, 5-7-5 syllables 
• more concrete than abstract
• simple--maybe show "cause and effect"; how one things affects another

Limericks should be:

• 5 lines, 8-8-5-5-8; with a AABBA rhyming scheme
• try to match the meter of stressed and unstressed beats described on the handout
• comical, surprising, etc.

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