Poetry and Literary Devices for Fifth Grade

Let your kid get her fill of pleasing poetry practice with these worksheets, full of literary devices like rhyme scheme, assonance, and consonance.

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Rhyme Schemes

Your young writer can learn about poetry analysis with this worksheet on rhyme schemes, complete with excerpts by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Rhyme Scheme: 'If'

Your budding poet can practice determining a rhyme scheme in this worksheet. He'll identify the rhyming words in Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, "If."

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Rhyme Map

Find out how rhyme scheme works with this simple exercise using Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

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Limerick Rhyme Scheme

Got time to rhyme? Check out this fun rhyme scheme worksheet with two laughable limericks.

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Robert Frost Rhyme Scheme

What better time to learn how to rhyme? Try this worksheet; it'll be sweet! Your child can learn rhyme scheme using this famous Robert Frost poem.

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Assonance and Consonance

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

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Rhythm and Rhyme in Poetry

Your young poet can review the important concepts of rhyme and rhythm by completing some practice exercises based on this poem.

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Rhythm in Poetry

Find out more about the role of rhythm in poetry with this worksheet that uses "Casey at the Bat" for practice.

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Rhythm Practice for Poetry

Your budding poet can practice his rhythm in this worksheet. He'll read two poems by Robert Louis Stevenson and determine their rhythm.

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Poetry Rhythm

Practicing poets can refine their sense of meter and rhythm with this worksheet about stressed and unstressed syllables.

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The Raven

Get in the spooky spirit of Halloween with our vocab-packed copy of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."

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How to Haiku

Do you know how to haiku? This haiku worksheet gives your budding poet practice with counting syllables and noticing the role of rhythm in poetry.

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Haiku Poetry

Budding writers can find their inner zen and build creative writing skills by practicing some haiku poetry.

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Write a Mother's Day Poem

Get your kids thinking about what makes Mom special with a fill in the blank acrostic Mother poem that's sure to bring tears to her eyes on her special day

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Angel Island Poetry

Try a Chinese poetry style called wu-yan-li-shi, which hopeful immigrants wrote while waiting on Angel Island in California to be admitted to the U.S.

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Poetry and Literary Devices for Fifth Grade

Rhyme Schemes

Rhyme Scheme: 'If'

Rhyme Map

Limerick Rhyme Scheme

Robert Frost Rhyme Scheme

Assonance and Consonance

Rhythm and Rhyme in Poetry

Rhythm in Poetry

Rhythm Practice for Poetry

Poetry Rhythm

The Raven

How to Haiku

Haiku Poetry

Write a Mother's Day Poem

Angel Island Poetry

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