According The Guinness Book of Records they claim Aram Saroyan's poem M written in the mid 1960s is the world's shortest poem. This poem consists of a four-legged version of the letter 'm' thus making it one and a half letters long.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the world's shortest poem is a one-letter poem by Aram Saroyan comprising a four-legged version of the letter "m".
Do you know what the world's shortest form of poetry is? It is haiku, which was born in Japan. Haiku is a short poem, consisting of just three lines, but it can capture natural scenery or scenes from daily life and even tell a story.
epigram. noun. a short poem or sentence that expresses something such as a feeling or idea in a short and clever or funny way.
devoted to one-word poems: the idea being that the poem consists of one word and a title. These are to be thought of as 2 straight lines, which make a corner (the poems will have form); while the paradox of these corners is, that they are open in all directions.
If you're writing your piece as a poem, you can use one stanza or many stanzas, but just one sentence (so if you have multiple stanzas, your one sentence would stretch across them). If you're writing prose, your piece will consist of one paragraph that is also a single sentence of whatever length you choose.
A poem or stanza with one line is called a monostich, one with two lines is a couplet; with three, tercet or triplet; four, quatrain.
A line with seven syllables is called heptasyllabic and so on.
Also known as an American cinquain or the Adelaide Crapsey cinquain, this form was developed by poet Adelaide Crapsey, who wrote many examples of the form in the early 20th century. The Adelaide Crapsey cinquain poem rules are as follows: Adherence to iambic meter.
Acrostic poetry is considered one of the simpler forms of poetry and is commonly taught to younger students. Acrostic poems are generally quick and easy to write and open students' minds to the understanding that poetry is a non-conventional style of writing which doesn't always have to make perfect sense.
The Minute Poem is a 60 syllable verse form, one syllable for each second in a minute.
A poem can be as long or as short as you want: these are known as acrostic or free verse poems. But other poems must be a certain length, like haikus, sonnets, villanelles, limericks, and ballads. These poems also have some rhyming and line-length restrictions and specific lengths.
A sonnet is a formal poem with a fixed structure. It is 14 lines long and each line contains 10 syllables.
We define short form poetry as anything 9 lines and under, or any poem that uses 60 words or less. The sonnet, for example, is a 14-line poem that often grapples with love, and though sonnets are by no means “long,” they often have abstract qualities not found in short poems.
The oldest surviving poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh, from the 3rd millennium BC in Sumer (in Mesopotamia, now Iraq), which was written in cuneiform script on clay tablets and, later, papyrus.
The oldest known "poems" are anonymous - such as the Rig Vedas of Hinduism, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Song of the Weaver by an unknown Egyptian of the Second Dynasty. The psalms and The Iliad are "attributed" to David and Homer, respectively - but painstaking scholarship has never given them exclusive credit.
Rondels are 13 lines total and generally follow an ABBA ABAB ABBAA rhyme scheme.
Sonnet. A 14-line poem with a variable rhyme scheme originating in Italy and brought to England by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, earl of Surrey in the 16th century.
Tercets are any three lines of poetry, whether as a stanza or as a poem, rhymed or unrhymed, metered or unmetered.
The modern Tanaga still uses the 7777 syllable count, but rhymes range from dual rhyme forms: AABB, ABAB, ABBA; to freestyle forms such as AAAB, BAAA, or ABCD. Modern writers may opt to give them titles.
An alexandrine is a line of poetry containing 12 syllables.
A nonet is a nine-line poem. In the nonet form, each line contains specific, descending syllable counts. The first line contains nine syllables, the second line contains eight, and the third line contains seven, and so on. The last line of nonet poetry contains one syllable.
First grade poems are usually introduced as short pieces of text with shorter, rhyming words. This provides practice with reading fluency and intonation, which kids are also working on in first grade. Poems are used to teach students how to identify rhyming words and word families too.
The sestina is a complex, thirty-nine-line poem featuring the intricate repetition of end-words in six stanzas and an envoi. The envoi, sometimes known as the tornada, must also include the remaining three end-words, BDF, in the course of the three lines so that all six recurring words appear in the final three lines.
A four-line stanza, often with various rhyme schemes, including: -ABAC or ABCB (known as unbounded or ballad quatrain), as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” or “Sadie and Maud” by Gwendolyn Brooks.