10 Forms of Poetry

1. Verse: A verse is a single metrical line of poetry.

2. Name: Poetry that explains about a word. From using the letters of the word for the first letter of each line.

3. List: Poem made up of a list of items or events. List can be any length. It can be either rhymed or unrhymed.

4. Petrarchan sonnet. A 14-line sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba followed by a sestet of cddcee or cdecde. Wiki

5. ABC: Five lines poem which creates a mood, picture or feeling. The first word of each line is in alphabetical order , Note here, Lines one to four are made up of words, phrases or clauses. Line five is one sentence long and begins with any letter.

6. Carpe diem: Poems with the theme of living for today. Carpe diem: 'seize the day' - Latin.

7. Lay: Lay is a long narrative poem especially one that was sung by medieval minstrels.

8. Doggerel: Light verse that has humor and comic in it of little literary value.

9. Shakespearean sonnet: 14-line sonnet consisting of three quatrains of abab cdcd efef followed by a couplet, gg. iambic pentameter are generally followed by Shakespearean sonnets.

10. Classicism: Form of poetry which uphold the values,principles and ideals of beauty that shows the soul characteristic of Greek and Roman art, culture, traditions, architecture, literature and form of expression.

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