Types of Poetry

a narrative poem of longer length; usually tells a sad or tragic story; contains many stanzas

• couplet
• haiku
• rhyme
• ballad

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.5

a poem written in the shape of its subject matter

• triplet
• ballad
• limerick
• concrete poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.5

CCSS.RL.6.9

a two-line poem with both lines rhyming

• bi-poem
• couplet
• narrative
• ballac

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

a poem that does not have rhyme and does not have meter; has no restrictions

• limerick
• quatrain
• stanza
• free verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

a 17-syllable traditional Japanese poem; unrhymed; has no title; has three lines containing syllables of 5, 7 & 5; usually about nature

• haiku
• limerick
• ballad
• concrete poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

a humorous 5-line poem; usually begins with "There once was a..."; the third and fourth lines are shorter than lines 1, 3, & 5; rhyme scheme is AABBA

• limerick
• haiku
• quatrain
• free verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

a 4-line poem with one of several schemes (also a stanza in a longer poem); the usual rhyme schemes include ABCB, AABB or ABAB

• quatrain
• limerick
• free verse
• ballad

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

a phrase or line of poetry that is repeated throughout a poem to create a special effect

• meter
• rhyme
• refrain
• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

words usually at the ends of lines of poems that sound the same

• rhythm
• meter
• refrian
• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

a fixed pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of fixed length; used to create rhythm

• refrain
• meter
• rhyme scheme
• stanza