Types of Poetry

A poem consisting of a single speaker expressing a state of mind or process or perception, feeling, emotion, or thought

• Lyric

• Sonnet

• Narrative

• Free Verse

Poetry without a regular pattern of stanzas, meter, or rhyme

• Sonnet

• Narrative

• Lyric

• Free Form

Poetry that has a regular pattern of stanzas, meter, and rhyme

• Narrative

• Fixed Form

• Sonnet

• Free Form

in a poem, two lines that form a unit; usually, they rhyme and have the same rhythm

• couplet

• free verse

• rhyme scheme

• haiku

a fourteen-line poem with a set rhyme scheme

• limerick

• quatrain

• sonnet

• haiku

a poem or song that tells a story using short stanzas

• ballad

• limerick

• concrete poem

• haiku

a type of poetry whose meaning is enhanced by the shape it forms on the page

• concrete poem

• sonnet

• limerick

• free verse

poetry that does not rhyme or follow a regular meter

• free verse

• couplet

• sonnet

• limerick

a form of poetry that originated in Japan which has three lines

• limerick

• haiku

• meter

• rhyme

a funny, five line poem with the rhyme scheme "aabba"

• limerick

• quatrain

• meter

• rhyme scheme