Quatrains! Get Your Quatrains Here!

 A Quatrain of Cranes

(Made by the Eighth Graders of AWS)

Photo by Amy LV

Quatrain Poems

Students - a quatrain is a four line poem stanza.  Many poetry books are full of quatrains, and I like writing them too.  Quatrains may rhyme in different ways, and may have different lengths of lines.  You can read about some ways people rhyme their quatrains here.

from March 2011

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Here is a happy quatrain poem about homework and reading, written by Madelyn Stoklosa from Bonnie Evancho's second grade classroom at Pinehurst Elementary in the Frontier Central School District in Lake View, New York.

Homework

I sort of like my homework

but I do it every day,

and when I'm done with homework

I'd like to start to play.

And when it's time for reading

that is homework too,

I REALLY REALLY love to read,

I hope that you do too!

by Madelyn Stoklosa, age 8 

Students - go ahead!  Find two pairs of sensible rhyming words, and build a quatrain around them. 

For the second half of April, I will continue to revisit last year's daily poems in an organized way, highlighting one specific idea-finding strategy or poetic technique daily.

This Month's Poetry Revisits and Lessons So Far

April 1 -   Poems about Poems

April 2 -   Imagery

April 3 -   Poems about Animals We Know

April 4 -   Line Breaks and White Space

April 5 -   Poems from Everyday Life

April 6 -   Free Verse

April 7 -   Poems from Wonders & Questions

April 8 -   Classroom Poetry Peek & Circular Poems 

April 9 -   Poems about Science

April 10 - Rhyming Couplets  

April 11 -  Riddle Poems 

April 12 -  List Poems 

April 13 -  Poems for Occasions

April 14 -  Concrete Poems
April 15 -  Poems about Food
April 16 -  Today - Quatrains

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