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Sonnet
A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme, often written in iambic pentameter.
Types: Shakespearean (English), Petrarchan (Italian)

Haiku
A Japanese form consisting of 3 lines with 17 syllables (5-7-5). It focuses on nature or a fleeting moment.

Villanelle
A 19-line poem with five tercets (3-line stanzas) and a quatrain (4-line stanza), with a repeating refrain and a rhyme scheme of ABA.

Limerick
A humorous, often nonsensical poem of 5 lines with an AABBA rhyme scheme.

Free Verse
Poetry without a fixed rhyme scheme, meter, or structure, allowing for freedom of expression.

Ballad
A narrative poem that tells a story, often set to music, with quatrains or couplets and a consistent rhyme scheme.

Ode
A formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea.

Epic
A long narrative poem that tells the heroic deeds of a legendary or historical figure.

Elegy
A mournful or melancholic poem, usually written to lament the dead.

Acrostic
A poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word or message.

Sestina
A complex 39-line poem with six stanzas of six lines, followed by a three-line envoi, with repeating end words in a fixed pattern.

Pantoum
A poem with repeating lines, where the second and fourth lines of one stanza become the first and third lines of the next.

Ghazal
A form of Persian-origin poetry consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, often dealing with loss or love.

Tanka
A Japanese form similar to haiku but with 5 lines and 31 syllables (5-7-5-7-7).

Cinquain
A 5-line poem with a specific syllable pattern (usually 2-4-6-8-2) or word count structure.

Couplet
A pair of rhymed lines, often forming a complete thought.

Terza Rima
A poem with tercets (3-line stanzas) and a chain rhyme scheme of ABA BCB CDC, etc.

Quatrain
A stanza or poem consisting of 4 lines with various rhyme schemes (ABAB, AABB, etc.).

Blank Verse
Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter.

Concrete Poetry (Shape Poetry)
Poetry where the visual arrangement of the words or letters forms a shape related to the poem's subject.

Epigram
A short, witty, and often satirical poem.

Prose Poetry
A poem written in prose (paragraph form) but with poetic devices such as imagery, repetition, or rhythm.

Chant
A repetitive, rhythmic poem, often used in rituals or oral traditions.

Clerihew
A whimsical, four-line biographical poem with an AABB rhyme scheme.

Rondeau
A 15-line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme, often featuring a refrain at the beginning, middle, and end.

Dramatic Monologue
A poem in which a single speaker, who is not the poet, addresses a silent listener.

Pastoral
A poem that idealizes rural life and nature, often contrasting it with urban life.

Lai
A short, lyrical narrative poem with rhymed couplets.

Epistle
A poem in the form of a letter.

Spenserian Stanza
A nine-line stanza with an ABABBCBCC rhyme scheme, typically used in long narratives.

Blues Poem
A poem that stems from the blues music tradition, often focusing on themes of struggle and repetition.

Palindrome Poem
A poem that reads the same forward and backward, word by word or letter by letter.

Septet
A poem or stanza consisting of seven lines, often following a specific rhyme scheme.

Triolet
An 8-line poem where the first line is repeated three times and has a rhyme scheme of ABaAabAB.

Epithalamium
A poem written in honor of a marriage or wedding.

Lai
A medieval French poem form with lines in sets of five or more syllables, typically romantic or lyrical.

Alphabet Poetry
A poem in which each line or stanza starts with the subsequent letter of the alphabet.

Dizain
A French poem of 10 lines with a rhyme scheme of ABABBCCDCD.

Rondel
A 13-line poem with two rhymes and a refrain, structured as ABba abAB abbaA.

Choka
A Japanese form of alternating 5-7 syllables, with no limit on length, often followed by an envoi.

Nonet
A 9-line poem starting with nine syllables in the first line and decreasing by one syllable per line.

Anaphora
A poem that repeats a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines or stanzas for emphasis.

Sapphic
A form named after the poet Sappho, with stanzas of three long lines and one short line.

Envoy
A brief stanza concluding certain forms like ballades and sestinas, summing up the poem.

Found Poetry
A poem created by reordering and remixing text from existing sources, often appearing in prose form.

ABC Poem
A poem where the first letter of each line follows the sequence of the alphabet.

Monody
A poem mourning the death of a single person, like a personal elegy.

Glose (or Glosa)
A poem where lines from another poem are quoted at regular intervals and expanded upon.

Verse Fable
A narrative poem that often features anthropomorphized animals and conveys a moral lesson.

Luc Bat
A Vietnamese form alternating between lines of six and eight syllables, with rhymes connecting across the lines.

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Pub: 20 Oct 2024 01:31 UTC
Edit: 20 Oct 2024 18:26 UTC
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