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Types of Poetry

Types of Poetry. Lyric. Subjective , reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter which reveals the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single , unique impression. Narrative. non-dramatic , objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or narrative.

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Types of Poetry

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  1. Types of Poetry

  2. Lyric • Subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter which reveals the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression.

  3. Narrative • non-dramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or narrative.

  4. Sonnet • a rigid 14-line verse form, with variable structure and rhyme scheme according to type:

  5. a. Shakespearean (English) --- three quatrains and concluding couplet in iambic pentameter, rhyming ababcdcdefefgg or abbacddceffegg. The Spenserian sonnet is a specialized form with linking rhyme ababbcbccdcdee.

  6. Petrarchan (Italian) • b. an octave and sestet, between which a break in thought occurs. The traditional rhyme scheme is abbaabbacdecde (or -cdcdcd).

  7. Ode • elaborate lyric verse which deals seriously with a dignified theme

  8. Blank Verse • unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

  9. Free Verse • unrhymed lines without regular rhythm

  10. Epic • a long, dignified narrative poem which gives the account of a hero important to his nation or race.

  11. Dramatic Monologue • A narrative poem in which the speaker addresses himself to persons around him; his speech deals with a dramatic moment in his life and manifests his character.

  12. Elegy • a poem of lament, a meditation on someone’s death.

  13. 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.

  14. Idyll • lyric poetry describing the life of the shepherd in pastoral, bucolic, idealistic terms.

  15. Villanelle • French verse form, strictly calculated to appear simple and spontaneous; five tercets and a final quatrain, rhyming abaabaabaabaabaabaa. Lines 1, 6, 12, 18 and 3, 9, 15, 19 are refrain.

  16. Ballade • Not to be confused with ballad -- another French verse form with three octaves (ababbcbc) + an envoy (bcbc) each ending with the same line or refrain

  17. Light Verse • general category of poetry written to entertain, such as lyric poetry, epigrams, and limericks. It can also have a serious side as in parody or satire.

  18. Limerick • Limerick: humorous nonsense-verse in five anapestic lines rhyming aabba. a-lines being trimeter and b-lines dimeter. • Edward Lear: There was an old man at the Cape Who made himself garments of crape When asked "Will they tear?" He replied "Here and there, But they keep such a beautiful shape!"

  19. Haiku • Japanese verse in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, often depicting a delicate image.

  20. Rhyme Royal • A verse form with stanzas of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme A B A B B C C. The rhyme royal verse form can be constructed of a tercet and two couplets or of a quatrain and a tercet.

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