CREATIVE WRITING
DIRECTION: IN COLUMN A, TYPES OF RHYME IN POEM ARE LISTED, WHILE IN COLUMN B, THE
DEFINITION OF EACH ARE LISTED ALSO. YOUR TASK IS TO MATCH COLUMN A WITH
COLUMN B.
COLUMN A COLUMN B
Theme is the summarized statement which contains the meaning of the poem. Moreover,
theme can also be the message of the poem. Themes can be wonders and amazements, life
and existence, isolation, self-discovery, and spirituality.
Tone describes the attitude or the mode of the poem which affects the reader’s response to
the poetry. Some poems may have hilarious, joyful, alert, lively intriguing, gloomy, broken, or
sad tone.
RHYME AND RHYME
SCHEME
1. True Rhyme – occurs Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and
when the words sound weary,
same syllables at the Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
end of the lines of the While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a
poetry. tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door
— Only this and nothing more.”
(excerpt from “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe)
2. Internal Rhyme – unlike And sweetest in the gale is heard;
the true rhyme, internal And sore must be the storm
rhyme happens two That could abash the little bird
words within the line of That kept so many warm.
poetry have rhyming (excerpt from “Hope Is The Thing With Feathers” by Emily
sounds. Dickinson)
3. Slant Rhyme - a type of Neither Out Far nor in Deep
rhyme where words by Robert Frost
sound similar but do not The people along the sand (A)
rhyme exactly. All turn and look one way. (B)
They turn their back on the land. (A)
They look at the sea all day. (B)
As long as it takes to pass (C)
A ship keeps raising its hull; (D)
The wetter ground like glass (C)
Reflects a standing gull. (D)
4. Rhyme Scheme - is the Take this kiss upon the brow!
pattern of rhyme that And, in parting from you now,
comes at the end of Thus much let me avow
each line in poetry, You are not wrong, who deem
usually it is represented That my days have been a dream;
or indicated by letters. Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
(excerpt from “A Dream Within a Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe)
METER- the systematic arrangement of syllables or accents in the line of
poetry.
Syllabic Meter / Syllabic Verse has a fixed number of syllables in each line, though there
may be a varying number of stresses. In other words, syllabic Meter is determined by the total
number of syllables per line, rather than the number of stresses.
5. Tanaga is a type of You are a child of the universe, - 9 syllables
short Filipino poem with no less than the trees and the stars; - 8 syllables
4 lines consisting 7 you have a right to be here. - 6 syllables
syllables on each line. And whether or not it is clear to you, - 10 syllables
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. - 13
syllables
(Excerpt from “Desiderata” by Max Ehrmann)
6. Haiku is a type of PALAY
Japanese poem with 3 Ildefonso Santos
lines where the first and Palay siyang matino, Pa1/lay2/si3/yang4/ma5/ti6/no7
last lines have 5 Nang humangi’y yumuko;
syllables and the second Nang1/hu2/ma3/ngi’y4/yu5/mu6/ko7
line has 5 syllables. Nguni’t muling tumayo Ngu1/ni’t2/mu3/ling4/tu5/ma6/yo7
Nagkabunga ng ginto. Nag1/ka2/bu3/nga4/ng5/gin6/to7
7. Free Verse has lines Yuku haru ya (Spring is passing.)
that have irregular Tori naki uwo no (The birds cry, and the fishes’eyes are)
number of stresses and Me ha namida (with tears)
syllables. - Matsuo Basho
