Types of poetry

A division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit.

• stanza

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• rhythm

• syllable

Have or end with a sound that corresponds to another.

• stanza

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• rhythm

• syllable

The use of long and short stresses, or stressed and unstressed, within the writing.

• stanza

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• rhythm

• syllable

A single, unbroken vowel sound within a spoken word.

• stanza

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• rhythm

• syllable

A poem without defined

rhyme or rhythm imitations.

• Free verse

• Haiku

• Sonnet

• Narrative

  Poem

• Limerick

A poem of Japanese origin containing three lines with five, seven and five syllables respectively.

• Free verse

• Haiku

• Sonnet

• Narrative

  Poem

• Limerick

A humorous poem of five lines using a rhyming scheme of aabba.

• Free verse

• Haiku

• Sonnet

• Narrative

  Poem

• Limerick

A fourteen line rhyming poem, typically consisting of ten syllables each line.

• Free verse

• Haiku

• Sonnet

• Narrative

  Poem

• Limerick

Are composed of 14 lines. and most are divided into three quatrains (4 line stanza) and a final, concluding couplet (2 line stanza), rhyming scheme.

• Shakespearean Sonnet

• Acrostic

• Narrative

  Poem

• Sonnet

• Limerick

•The first letters of each line form a word or message.

•The letters of the subject written vertically

• Each line begins with a word or phrase that starts with that letter

•Does not have to rhyme

•Simple, based upon one

word

• Shakespearean Sonnet

• Acrostic

• Narrative

  Poem

• Sonnet

• Limerick