Details of a variety of types of poem used in creative writing project.
Forms of verse: Rhyming stanzas
Rhyming stanzas are found in poetry that is divided into stanzas or verses (groups of lines) in which all or some of the lines have a rhyme word at the end.
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Forms of verse: Blank verse
Blank verse is unrhyming verse in iambic pentameter lines. This means that the rhythm is biased towards a pattern in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed …
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Forms of verse: Free verse
Free verse is verse in lines of irregular length, rhyming (if at all) very irregularly.
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Forms of verse: Sonnet
Sonnets are short rhyming poems, normally of 14 iambic pentameter lines
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Forms of verse: Ballad
Ballads are fairly short narrative poems usually in quatrains (four-line stanzas) rhyming abcb.
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Forms of verse: Haiku
Haiku is a very short non-rhyming form in three lines. A strict haiku contains just 17 syllables, divided into lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables.
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Forms of verse: Epigram
The epigram is a very short, highly polished poem. In English, verse epigrams virtually always use rhyme; they often take the form of a couplet or quatrain (four-line stanz…
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Forms of verse: Elegy
The elegy has no set form. An elegy is a lament for a loss: of a person, place or thing. More generally, it can also be a poem of sombre reflection on life's vicissitudes a…
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Forms of verse: Riddle
Riddles have no set form. They are verbal puzzles: an enigmatic statement, description or question posed by one person to another, or to a group, who have to guess the answ…
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Forms of verse: Sestina
A sestina consists of six stanzas of six unrhyming lines followed by an envoi of three lines. The lines are almost always of regular length and are usually in iambic pentam…
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