Poetry - Literary Devices

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

• Limerick
• Rhyme
• Free Verse
• Alliteration

Fresh fried fish,
Fish fresh fried,
Fried fish fresh,
Fish fried fresh.

• Alliteration
• Free Verse
• Limerick
• Rhyme

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses, And all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again!

• alliteration
• free verse
• rhyme
• limerick

“Just turn me loose let me straddle my old saddle,
Underneath the western skies,
On my cayuse let me wander over yonder,
‘Til I see the mountains rise.”

• Free Verse
• Alliteration
• Rhyme
• Limerick

There was a young lady of station
“I love man” was her sole exclamation
But when men cried, “You flatter”
She replied, “Oh! no matter
Isle of Man is the true explanation.

• Limerick
• Alliteration
• Free Verse
• Rhyme

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, ‘It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!

• Free Verse
• Alliteration
• Limerick
• Rhyme

Come slowly, Eden
Lips unused to thee.
Bashful, sip thy jasmines,
As the fainting bee,
Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums,
Counts his nectars—alights,
And is lost in balms!

• Limerick
• Free Verse
• Alliteration
• Rhyme

And round about there is a rabble
Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth.

• Alliteration
• Rhyme
• Free Verse
• Limerick

And let me the canakin clink, clink;
And let me the canakin clink
A soldier’s a man;
A life’s but a span;
Why, then, let a soldier drink.

• Free Verse
• Limerick
• Rhyme
• Alliteration

Bed Bath & Beyond

• Free Verse
• Alliteration
• Limerick
• Rhyme