Types
of Poetry
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Poetry
that certain letters, usually the first in each line form a word or message
when read in a sequence.
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A
story in a song usually a narrative song or poem. Any form of story may be told
as a ballad (not to be confused with a ballade), ranging from accounts of
historical events to fairy tales in verse form. It is usually with
foreshortened alternating four- and three-stress lines ('ballad meter') and
simple repeating rhymes, and often with a refrain.
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A
Cinquain has 5 lines-based on the number
of syllables or words:
1) the title
2) a description of the title in 4 syllables or words
3) a description of the action in 6 syllables or words
4) a description of the feeling on 8 syllables or words
5) another word for the title in 2 syllables or words
Diamante
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A Diamante
poem is diamond-shaped to show
growth or movement from one extreme to another:
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participle
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participle
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participle
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Epitaph
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A commemorative
inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument written to praise the deceased.
Free verse (vers libre)
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A term describing
various styles of poetry that are not written using strict meter or rhyme, but
that still are recognizable as 'poetry' by virtue of complex patterns of one
sort or another that readers can perceive to be part of a coherent whole.
Haiku
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17
syllables:
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5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
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A Japanese poem
of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the others
seven. In Japanese, tanka is often written in one straight line, but in English
and other languages, we usually divide the lines into the five syllabic units:
5-7-5-7-7.
Shape
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Poetry written in
the shape or form of an object. Shape poems do not have to take the form of the
object it describes. This form is different than a concrete poem, in that a
concrete poem takes the shape of the object it describes.
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Lyric poems that
are 14 lines that usually have one or more conventional rhyme schemes.
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A stanza or poem
consisting of four lines. In the basic form, Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme while
having a similar number of syllables
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A lengthy lyric
poem typically of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style
and formal stanza structure. A classic ode is structured in three parts: the
strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode. Different forms such as the
homostrophic ode and the irregular ode also exist.
