Acrostic poem
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A poem in which the first letter of each line spells out
a word or phrase.
Blank verse
Written in a regular meter, but does not rhyme.
Almost always written in iambic pentameter - lines
of 10 syllables alternating between stressed and
unstressed syllables.
Ekphrastic poem
A poem about a work of visual art.
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Ghazal
A poem written in rhyming couplets (pairs of lines)
with a refrain (a repeated line or lines).
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Haiku
A three-line poem with lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
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Limerick
A five-line poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme,
often humorous or bawdy.
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Pantoum
A three-stanza poem in which the second and fourth
lines of a stanza repeat as the first and third lines of
the next stanza.
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Roundel
A poem in 11-14 lines in which the first two lines are
repeated in the middle (if 14 lines) and at the end of
the poem.
Sestina
A poem in six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoi.
The end words of each line in the first stanza repeat
in a set pattern throughout the rest of the poem.
Sonnet
A 14-line poem in iambic pentameter (see "Blank
Verse" definition), divided either into eight- and sixline stanzas rhyming ABBAABBA CDECDE (or
CDCDCD) or into three four-line stanzas and a
couplet rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
Villanelle
A poem of five three-line stanzas and a four-line
stanza in which the first and third lines are repeated
alternately at the end of each stanza and repeated
together as the last two lines of the poem.
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same poem for more than one
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by someone else.
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verse.
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