Original Poetry By Eighth Grade Students

2. Original Poetry By Eighth Grade Students Mrs. Hughes’s Language Arts Classes

3. Couplets A couplet is a pair of lines in verse, usually rhymed and of the same meter. The last word of each line should rhyme. Rhyme scheme: A A B B One stanza of a couplet

4. Student Examples There’s no place like home Except for at the park eating an ice cream cone. By Hannah Leaird What’s the opposite of hair? Touching your bald head when nothing is there. By Katelyn King

5. Couplets Couplets by Antonio Lambert Tiny Little, petite, low, and small I have to jump to sit on a stall. Opposite poem What is the opposite of cool? To lay in a spot where someone has drooled.

6. More Couplets I caught a catfish in the bay While I was fishing yesterday. By Austin Grimes If something goes boom, Will smoke soon plume? By Zachary Richardson If I cry, will he die? By Christin Cunningham .

7. Still More Couplets The opposite of sisters Is brothers, which are misters. By Megan Cates Cold, scaly, slick and thin At night the snakes come out again. By William Chestnut

8. Grown, glamorous, gorgeous, boss Most girls love sweet lip gloss. By Janae Rodgers Athlete Cheering, athletic, fast They think you will run out of gas. By Lauren Cardwell If birds fly, do penguins sigh? By Brooke Newman

9. Quatrains A quatrain poem or stanza is four lines long. It is used in more rhymed poetry than any other form. Some common rhyme schemes are A AAA A B A B B A B C B B A A

10. A Quatrain about Quatrains Mother Goose and other fine rhymes Are often written in just four lines. Rhyme schemes start with A then B In stanza one, you won’t get to D. By Mrs. Hughes

11. Quatrain Candle, candle burning bright Lighting my way on a dark, dark night. Oh, no I just fell All the way down the dark, dark well. By Zachary Richardson

12. Quatrain Oh how I wish it was summer This winter is such a bummer It seems like every day it rains My energy is drains. By Cayla Wilkinson

13. Quatrain Rose, rose glowing in the night. How do you glow so bright? Pedals glowing, falling slowly On a cold, dark night. By LaDarris Marshall

14. Quatrain Water, water in the night It sparkles with the moon light When the sun rises We are appointed to new surprises. By Christin Cunningham

15. Quatrain Music’s in my blood I feel it runnin’ in every vein. It relieves my body of stress And all of the pain. By Darryl Ware

16. Quatrain Lovely in the trees How is it you sing? When the air is empty of even the bees Void of anything? By Haley Norman

17. Quatrain Some are very scary Some are very hairy Some have silly faces Some have flat bases. By Cheylsea Byrd

18. Quatrain Music soothes the savage beast For the ears it is a feast It helps while getting homework done Which is the task I like the least. By Drew Corley

19. Quatrain Snow! Snow! Falling low In the moon light night Such a wonderful sight Snow! Snow! Come and go. By Shelby Shorrock

20. Quatrains You know not what you say And mean not what you do I dislike you either way You will never see the truth. I may not be perfect But you are far behind How can such judgmental stares Come from someone so blind? By William Chestnut

21. Haiku Poetry • The haiku is a three-line Japanese verse form. • The first and third lines have five syllables. • The second line has seven syllables. • The topic is often a season or a scene from nature.

22. Haiku format to teach haiku Japanese verse form. Three lines of five, seven, five. Snapshot of nature. By Mrs. Hughes

23. Student Haiku Examples The chameleon rests Beneath a cherry blossom Silent and in peace. By Constance Maddox

24. By Constance Maddox

25. Haiku Rain drops on my house It sings music to my ears. Pitter patter sounds. By Makagan Griffin

26. Haiku The blue rose blossoms On a cold winter evening Stars shining above By Darian King

27. Haiku Rain from the sky line Water dropping to the earth Like a tear it pours. By Janae Rodgers

28. Limerick • A humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with a specific rhyme meter and rhyme scheme: A A B B A

29. A limerick to explain limerick There once was a poem called Limerick To write one was not such a hard trick. Just think of five lines And be sure to rhyme You’ll be done in a split if your mind’s quick. By Mrs. Hughes

30. Student Limericks A blacksmith from Kingdom fell ill He coughed and he wheezed like a drill. But once he rested, No one out bested. The blacksmith from Kingdom not ill. By Constance Maddox

31. There once was a man from Saraland All the while, he hoped for some land. So, he grew some trees And planted some seeds. That man from Saraland. By Wyatt Morgan

32. There once was a duck from Duckville All the while he hoped he’d get ill So he got a cold Then he turned bold That strange duck from Duckville. By Alex Ruiz

33. There once was a girl from New York All the while she hoped for a fork So she brought a spoon But she was a goon That spoon fork goon from New York! By Jaiyana Trotter

34. There was a small bird that I found That made an unusual sound Was but three inches tall Wore the colors of fall And it’s body was perfectly round. By William Chestnut

35. One time I met a computer He said he was a good tutor. I asked him for help. He started to yelp. So I ran away on my scooter. By Makagan Griffin

36. There once was a girl names Bre And people wished they could be me So take some advice That would be very nice, But they just couldn’t be me. By Bre Price

37. There was a fat shark in the sea Who thought he was slick as could be. For food he did look But wound up on a hook. Now a nice pair of boots is he! By Drew Corley

38. Concrete Poems By Megan Cates

40. By Wyatt Morgan

41. By Bubba Charles Pettaway

43. Spartan Cinquain Poem By Cheylsea Byrd