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Lyric
subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter which reveals poet's thoughts and feelings to create a singe, unique impression.
Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
Narrative
non-dramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or narrative.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan"
Sonnet
a rigid 14-line verse form, with variable structure and rhyme scheme according to type: Shakespearean (English) or Petrarchian (Italian)
Robert Lowell, "Salem"
John Milton, "On His Blindness"
Ode
elaborate lyric verse which deals seriously with a dignified theme
John Keats,"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Blank Verse
unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
Robert Frost, "Birches"
Free Verse
unrhymed lines without regular rhythm
Walt Whitman, "The Last Invocation"
Epic
a long, dignified narrative poem which gives the account of a hero important to his nation or race.
Lord Bryon, "Don Juan"
Dramatic Monologue
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
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"
Elegy
a poem of lament, meditating on the death of an individual
John Milton, "Lycidas"
Ballad
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
John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci"
Idyll
lyric poetry describing the life of the shepherd in pastoral, bucolic, idealistic terms
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Idylls of the King"
Villanelle
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.
Theodore Roethke, "The Walking"
Light Verse
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.
Vachel Lindsay, "The Congo"
Haiku
Japanese verse in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, often depicting a delicate image.
Matsuo Basko
Limerick
humerous nonsense-verse in five anapestic lines rhyming aabba. a-lines being trimeter and b-lines dimeter
Edward Lear