Fun with Words: Poetry
General Poetry Resources
Scholastic.com Poetry Resources
Help with writing poems, sample poems, and more.
Fern's Poetry Club at PBSkids.org
Sample poems, tips and guides, and more.
Poetry4Kids.com
Sample poems, rhyming dictionary, guides to help with writing a poem, and more.
Rhyme Zone Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus
Write Express Rhyming Dictionary
Acrostics
Acrostic Poem Writer
Takes you through step by step to help you create an acrostic poem. Neat!
Couplets
Poems at the right that kind of have couplets in them (look carefully!):
- "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
- "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"
- "Sympathy"
- "Woman Work"
Haiku
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Limericks
Limericks at ReadWriteThink.org
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Free Verse
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Poems at the right that are written in free verse:
- "A Song of Greatness"
- poems by Langston Hughes
Cinquains
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Poems to Know
All the World's a Stage (William Shakespeare)
Apostrophe to the Ocean (George Gordon Byron)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (William Wordsworth)
Mother to Son (Langston Hughes)
Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing (James Weldon Johnson)
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass (Emily Dickinson)
A Psalm of Life (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
A Song of Greatness (a Chippewa song)
Poem is on the right side, about half way down. (Translated by Mary Austin.)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Robert Frost)
Sympathy (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
There Is No Frigate Like a Book (Emily Dickinson)
The Walloping Window-blind (Charles E. Carryl)
Life Is Fine (Langston Hughes)
The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)
I Like to See It Lap the Miles (Emily Dickinson)
Poems to Know
All the World's a Stage (William Shakespeare)
Apostrophe to the Ocean (George Gordon Byron)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (William Wordsworth)
Mother to Son (Langston Hughes)
Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing (James Weldon Johnson)
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass (Emily Dickinson)
A Psalm of Life (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
A Song of Greatness (a Chippewa song)
Poem is on the right side, about half way down. (Translated by Mary Austin.)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Robert Frost)
Sympathy (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
There Is No Frigate Like a Book (Emily Dickinson)
The Walloping Window-blind (Charles E. Carryl)
Life Is Fine (Langston Hughes)
The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)
I Like to See It Lap the Miles (Emily Dickinson)