Okay so here we go:
These are Form Poems
I will put what forms I want and you
can refer here to find out how to write them.
I have not complicated anything,
more than likely I hope I have simplified it.
Acrostic Poetry
Acrostic poems differ from other poetry
in that the first letter of each line
spells a word, which can be read vertically.
The rhyme scheme and number of lines may vary
in acrostic poems because it is more of a
descriptive poem in which one describes
the word being spelled.
Usually acrostics carry the characteristics
of the word you are writing about,
so if you write about your friend you would
include his/her qualities and if you were writing
about an object or animal, the same thing.
allpoetry.com/Poem/571165
Ballad
A ballad is a simple poem with short verses.
It often tells a story about people that
you would read about in folk tales or which made
a comeback in the 1960s through Bob Dylan.
Ballads were told to people long before
they were written down. They were about
revenge, crime and love. They were often
turned into songs, the singers usually
wandering minstrels.
Ballad "The Ballad of Lucy Jordon"
Blank verse
This kind of poetry is essentially
the unrhymed counterpart of many
types of poems written in a very
specific meter. For example,
you could write a sonnet with
perfect iambic pentameter,
but forsake the rhyme
(which then makes it the
newest of sonnets:
BLANK SONNET.
The benefit of this is that
the poet does not have to
worry about fitting lines
into rhyme and creating a
coerced sounding image,
yet the poem remains
very structured.
Cinquain
A Cinquain is a short,
unrhymed poem consisting
of twenty-two syllables
distributed as
2, 4, 6, 8, 2,
in five lines.
The most popular form is as follows:
Line 1: Noun
Line 2: Description of Noun
Line 3: Action
Line 4: Feeling or Effect
Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun.
allpoetry.com/Poem/601314
Epic
An Epic is a long narrative poem
celebrating the adventures and
achievements of a hero...
epics deal with the traditions,
mythical or historical,
of a nation.
Beowulf, The Iliad,
the Odyssey, and Aeneid.
allpoetry.com/Poem/596193
Epigram
Epigrams are short satirical poems
ending with either a humorous retort
or a stinging punchline.
Narrative poetry
This is poetry that shows a story;
it relays a particular event or happening
and is usually a very long story utilizing
as many of the poetic devices available
to the poet.
allpoetry.com/Poem/582678
Free Verse
This is poetry that doesn't follow
any set pattern. It doesn't rhyme and
there is no definite beat or rhythm to
the sound of the words. This form of
poetry is the most popular form in
contemporary literature.
allpoetry.com/Poem/588120
Kyrielle
A Kyrielle is a French form
of rhyming poetry written
in quatrains (a stanza
consisting of 4 lines),
and each quatrain contains
a repeating line or phrase
known as a refrain
(usually appearing
as the last line
of each stanza).
Each line within the poem
consists of only eight syllables.
There is no limit
to the amount of stanzas
a Kyrielle may have,
but three is considered
the accepted minimum.
Some popular rhyming
schemes for a Kyrielle are:
aabB, ccbB, ddbB,
with B being the repeated line,
or abaB, cbcB, dbdB.
Mixing up the rhyme scheme
is possible for an
unusual pattern of:
axaZ, bxbZ, czcZ, dxdZ,
etc. with Z
being the repeated line.
Kyrielle Sonnet
A Kyrielle Sonnet consists of 14 lines
(three rhyming quatrain stanzas and a
non-rhyming couplet). Just like the
traditional Kyrielle poem,
the Kyrielle Sonnet also has
a repeating line or phrase
as a refrain (usually appearing
as the last line of each stanza).
Each line within the Kyrielle Sonnet
consists of only eight syllables.
French poetry forms have a tendency
to link back to the beginning of the poem,
so common practice is to use the first
and last line of the first quatrain
as the ending couplet.
This would also re-enforce
the refrain within the poem.
Therefore, a good rhyming scheme
for a Kyrielle Sonnet would be:
AabB, ccbB, ddbB, AB
-or-
AbaB, cbcB, dbdB, AB.
Limericks
These are
humorous rhyming poems
of five lines.
Usually the first two lines
and the last line are longer,
and the third and fourth lines are short.
The normal rhymes scheme is a a b b a.
allpoetry.com/Poem/585730
Minute Poetry
The Minute Poem
is rhyming verse form
that consists of
12 lines of 60 syllables written
in strict iambic meter.
The poem is formatted
into 3 stanzas of
8,4,4,4;
8,4,4,4;
8,4,4,4 syllables.
The rhyme scheme
is as follows:
aabb,
ccdd,
eeff
Monorhyme
A Monorhyme is a poem
in which all the lines
have the same end rhyme.
allpoetry.com/Poem/544747
Nonsense Poetry
These are poems that are whimsical
or funny because they are full of
absurd, or abstract things that
don't usually happen. These poems
usually contain words that writer invented.
Lewis Carroll is somewhat famous
for this kind of poem.
allpoetry.com/Poem/563744
Nonet
A nonet is a nine syllable
first line poem
working downwards to one.
9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
7-6-5-4-3-2-1
6-5-4-3-2-1
5-4-3-2-1
4-3-2-1
3-2-1
2-1
1
Here is a sample of an
upsidedown nonet.
allpoetry.com/Poem/571139
Ode
An Ode is a poem praising and
glorifying a person, place or thing.
Ode To A Grecian Urn
Shape Poetry
-Shape Poetry is also called Concrete Poetry-
Structure and shape of the
written word delineates prose from Poetry.
One of the most innovative forms of poetry
is for the poem to take on the shape of its subject.
For example, if the subject of your poem is a star,
the poem would be shaped like a star.
Start with a simple shape.
This can be a creative beginning.
If you conjure an easy shape to master,
your poetry can follow the shape.
Septuplet
The Septuplet is
a poem consisting
of seven lines
containing fourteen words
with a break in
between the two parts.
Both parts deal with the
same thought
and create a picture.
Used mainly as
expressions of social
criticism or political satire,
the most common forms
are written as a couplet:
a pair of rhymed lines
in the same meter.
Japanese Poetry
Tanka
Is a form of poetry
also known as short form.
One verse of 31 syllables
in 5 lines
arranged 5-7-5-7-7.
This is a style
uniquely Japanese
and was to remain
the most popular
until the 16th century.
Choka
Is a form of poetry
related to the tanka,
otherwise known as long form.
It also has
5-7 lines
but is
indefinite in length.
It was usually
reserved for elegies.
Renga
Is also called the linked poem.
Toward the end of the end of the
Heian period (794-1185) it was
becoming increasing popular
for poets to divide
a single tanka poem
into two parts.
Both parts related
to a single image or theme.
When two poets composed
a single tanka
this became known as the renga.
Haiku
Is a poem composed of three lines
totaling seventeen syllables.
Line 1: 5 syllables,
Line 2: 7 syllables,
Line 3: 5 syllables.
Here is a sample
of the four seasons
in haiku form
and as acrostics!
allpoetry.com/Poem/541715
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Shadow Poetry at
shadowpoetry.com/types.html
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