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Lyric
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subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter which reveals poet's thoughts and feelings to create a singe, unique impression.
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Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
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Narrative
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non-dramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or narrative.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan"
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Sonnet
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a rigid 14-line verse form, with variable structure and rhyme scheme according to type: Shakespearean (English) or Petrarchian (Italian)
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Robert Lowell, "Salem"
John Milton, "On His Blindness" |
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Ode
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elaborate lyric verse which deals seriously with a dignified theme
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John Keats,"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
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Blank Verse
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unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
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Robert Frost, "Birches"
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Free Verse
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unrhymed lines without regular rhythm
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Walt Whitman, "The Last Invocation"
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Epic
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a long, dignified narrative poem which gives the account of a hero important to his nation or race.
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Lord Bryon, "Don Juan"
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Dramatic Monologue
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a lyric poem in which the speaker addresses himself to persons around him; his speach deals with a dramatic moment in his life and manifests his character
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Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"
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Elegy
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a poem of lament, meditating on the death of an individual
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John Milton, "Lycidas"
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Ballad
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simple, narrative verse which tells a story to be sung or recited; the folk ballad is anonymously handed down, while the literary ballad has a single author
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John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci"
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Idyll
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lyric poetry describing the life of the shepherd in pastoral, bucolic, idealistic terms
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Idylls of the King"
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Villanelle
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French verse form, strictly calculated to appear simple and spontaneous; five tercets and a final quatrain, rhyming aba aba aba aba aba abaa. Lines 1,6,12,18 and 3,9,15,19 are refrain.
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Theodore Roethke, "The Walking"
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Light Verse
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general category or poetry written to entertain, such as lyric poetry, epigrams, and limericks. it can also have a serious side as in parody or satire.
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Vachel Lindsay, "The Congo"
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Haiku
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Japanese verse in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, often depicting a delicate image.
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Matsuo Basko
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Limerick
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humerous nonsense-verse in five anapestic lines rhyming aabba. a-lines being trimeter and b-lines dimeter
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Edward Lear
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