6 types of poems you can use for your atom project.

1.  Name poem: use the each letter in the name of the element as the first letter in a sentence about the element.  This poem does not have to rhyme.

Example:

Transition metal

 Is used to build aircraft

Too strong to break

Atomic number 22

Not very dense (4.5g/cm³)

 Is a solid (at room temperature)

Under group 4

May never tarnish

 

 

 

2.  Haiku: an old Japanese poem containing 3 lines.  This poem does not have to rhyme. 

Line 1—five syllables

Line 2—seven syllables

Line 3—five syllables

 

Example:

Oh, Titanium

Are eight isotopes enough?

So strong, so useful

 

 

 

 

3.    Tanka: like a haiku but with 2 more lines of 7 syllables. Again it does not have to rhyme.

Line 1—five syllables

Line 2—seven syllables

Line 3—five syllables

Line 4—seven syllables

Line 5—seven syllables

 

Example:

Oh, Titanium

You hide so well in the earth

Only bound to others

            Titanium dioxide

(You may know it as rutile)

         

4.   Couplets: a rhyming poem where the rhymed words are coupled (one is right after the other.) it can be any length but must have an even number of lines.

 

Example:

Titanium is my favorite of all,

It’s huge name makes it not small.

 

It is light and it’s strong, and has may uses,

It has 22 protons and zero excuses.

 

So the next time you are traveling up high in a plane,

Thank the high tensile strength and relax your brain!!

 

 

5.     Quatrains: a four line poem that may follow any one of four different rhyming patterns (AABB, ABAB, ABBA, ABCB).  Many quatrains can be combined together to form a long poem.  In this case each quatrain is called a stanza.

 

Example:

   These atoms are bigger than most

   It is 22 protons strong.

   They are very bashful and not ones to boast

   The transition metals are where they belong!!!

 

 

 

6.   Limerick: a 5 lined poem that follows a definite rhythm pattern and rhymes.

·         Lines 1, 2 and 5 all have three stressed or accented syllables and all rhyme

·         Lines 3 and 4 have 2 stressed or accented syllables and rhyme with each other.

 

Example:

            I learned of this atom is school

            To ionize you need 650,000 Joules

                        It’s ninth most abundant

and never redundant

            Titanium’s decidedly COOL!!!