Poetic Form 10: Onomatopoeia Poetry

The final poetic form that students will be working with during National Poetry Month is the Onomatopoeia Poem.

Onomatopoeia is a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing, suggesting its source object, such as "click," "clang," "buzz," or animal noises such as "oink", "quack", "flap", "slurp", or "meow".

The criteria for drafting the Onamatapiea Poems is:

1. Poem's length: 1 stanza of no less than four lines--a minumum of three words per line.

2. Rhyme scheme: ABCB ( and every even numebred line shoudl rhyme if a single stanze is longer than four lines).

3. Lines 1 and 3 (and odd lines if more than four lines) should contain onamatapiea.

4. Punctuate and title your poems.

5. Have fun with your word choice!

Here are two examples some studenst and I wrote together this morning before school:

Bad Leak
Drip, drip, drip
The faucet had a leak
slop, drop, plop
The rushing water formed a creek.

Lunchroom Music
Crunch! Munch! Crunch!
Potato chips sure taste swell!
Slurp, slurp, BURP!!!
Some don’t use their manners so well.

Read Up and Write On!