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| 6650440230 | Ballad | a poem (or song) that narrates a story in short stanzas | 0 | |
| 6650440231 | Elegy | a formal poem presenting a mediation on death (or another solemn theme) | 1 | |
| 6650440232 | Epic | a long narrative poem written in elevated style that presents the adventures of characters of high position and episodes that are important to the history of a race/nation | 2 | |
| 6650440233 | Free Verse | poetry that doesn't rhyme and also lacks a set meter | 3 | |
| 6650440234 | Lyric | a short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings (originally meant to be sung while the accompanying lyre plays) | 4 | |
| 6650440235 | Ode | a traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events | 5 | |
| 6650440241 | Pantoum | a poem consisting of quatrains (any number of them) that says every line exactly twice | 6 | |
| 6650440795 | Pastoral | a poem about a rural setting that is usually idealized with formal diction/meter | 7 | |
| 6650440796 | Sestina | a poem consisting of 6 sestets (6 line stanzas) and a final tercet (using the same words to end the lines) | 8 | |
| 6650443004 | Sonnet (Shakespearean and Petrarchan) | 14 line lyric poem with a complicated rhyme scheme and a defined structure | 9 | |
| 6650443703 | Villanelle | a 19-line (5 tercets, 1 quatrain) poem with only two end rhyming sounds throughout and whole lines recurring alternately | 10 |
