poetic form
structure that is used by a poem
haiku
very short form of Japanese poetry
verset
short verse of flexible form
couplet
pair of lines of metre in poetry; two line stanza making complete sense
Doha
form of self-contained rhyming couplet in poetry
Pan-Hispanic ballad
traditional Iberian ballad
landay
traditional Afghan poetic form consisting of a single couplet
Golden shovel
poetic form
octave
poetic verse form consisting of eight lines
Shi
the Chinese conception of poetry
alba
subgenre of Occitan lyric poetry
syllabic verse
poetic form having a fixed or constrained number of syllables per line
heroic couplet
rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter
heptastich
poetic verse form consisting of seven lines
tembang
music genre
acrostic
writing in which the first letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out a word or a message
tercet
term referring to a poetry which is composed of three lines
Fib
experimental Western poetry form
Breton lai
short, rhymed tales of love and chivalry
poem
form of literature, work of poetry, often composed of verses
concrete poetry
genre of poetry with lines arranged as a shape
rondeau
French medieval and Renaissance poetic and musical genre
monostich
poem which consists of a single line
ballata
music genre
Quintain
Poetic form
rune poem
literary form with examples in Old English, Old Norse, and Icelandic
Choliamb
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
prose poetry
literary genre
stanza
grouped set of lines within a poem
ancient Greek elegy
poem form from ancient Greece
Anagrammatic poem
form of poetry
Mote
poetic form
free verse
poetic style
ode
type of lyrical stanza
ballad
short narrative poem which is written to be sung and has a simple but dramatic theme
cinquain
five-line stanza
lay
type of lyrical, narrative poem
renga
genre of Japanese collaborative poetry
sound poetry
artistic form bridging literary and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values
free-form haiku
haiku not following the traditional form
Curtal sonnet
type of sonnet but with just 10 1/2-lines
sonnet
form of poetry with fourteen lines and strict rhyming structure
narrative poetry
type of poetry which tells a story
long poem
poetry genre, poetic form
erasure poetry
form of poetry
seven-character poetry
one of Chinese poetic genre, composed of seven characters, originated from Chu Ci (楚辭) and Shijing (Book of Poetry) (11 BCE－6 BCE)