fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form

Combines visual and aural elements of art and music in poetic form

A form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning

Poetry having as a primary purpose to teach or preach

poem of lament, meditating on the death of someone

English or shakespearan sonnet

a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg

Poem which gives account of a hero important to nation or race

A short poem which is often witty

serious or humorous poem or statement on a gravestone

Any form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage and tradition. English = sonnet, limerick, villanelle

Designed to be sung and orally transmitted

Nonmetrical poetry in which the basic rhythm unit is the line Organic development

Lyric poetry describing the life of the shepherd

A fixed form consisting of five lines of anapestic meter, the first two trimeter, the next two dimeter, the last line trimester aabba used for humourous or nonsense verse

Narrative poem designed to be sung, composed by a single author

Six line stanzas and envoi of three lines

verse measured by number of syllables rahter than the number of feet

writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme

19 line fixed form 5 tercets concluding quatrain

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Forms of poems

Question	Answer
Ballad	fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form
Blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter
Concrete poetry	Combines visual and aural elements of art and music in poetic form
Continous form	A form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning
Didactic poetry	Poetry having as a primary purpose to teach or preach
Elegy	poem of lament, meditating on the death of someone
English or shakespearan sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg
Epic	Poem which gives account of a hero important to nation or race
Epigram	A short poem which is often witty
Epitaph	serious or humorous poem or statement on a gravestone
Fixed form	Any form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage and tradition. English = sonnet, limerick, villanelle
Folk ballad	Designed to be sung and orally transmitted
Free verse	Nonmetrical poetry in which the basic rhythm unit is the line Organic development
Haiku	575
Idyll	Lyric poetry describing the life of the shepherd
Italian sonnet	Octave rhyming abba abba
Limerick	A fixed form consisting of five lines of anapestic meter, the first two trimeter, the next two dimeter, the last line trimester aabba used for humourous or nonsense verse
Light verse	poetry written to entertain
Literary ballad	Narrative poem designed to be sung, composed by a single author
Narrative	Poem referencing story
Ode	Poem addressing something
Sestina	Six line stanzas and envoi of three lines
Syllabic verse	verse measured by number of syllables rahter than the number of feet
Verse	writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme
Villanelle	19 line fixed form 5 tercets concluding quatrain

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