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| 5585297024 | Ballad | A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. |  | 0 |
| 5585297025 | Blank Verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |  | 1 |
| 5585299492 | Didactic | Poetry that instructs, either in terms of morals or by providing knowledge of philosophy, religion, arts, science, or skills. |  | 2 |
| 5585299493 | Elegy | A formal poem presenting a meditation on death or another solemn theme. The elements of a traditional elegy mirror three stages of loss. First, there is a lament, where the speaker expresses grief and sorrow, then praise and admiration of the idealized dead, and finally consolation and solace. |  | 3 |
| 5587343663 | Epic | A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society |  | 4 |
| 5585299494 | Epigram | A short, pithy saying, usually in verse, often with a quick, satirical twist at the end. The subject is usually a single thought or event. |  | 5 |
| 5585299495 | Free Verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme. Free verse is often inspired by the cadence—the natural rhythm, the inner tune—of spoken language. It possesses visual form and uses the graphic line to differentiate itself from prose. |  | 6 |
| 5585302138 | Heroic Couplet | a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written as to express aphoristic wit. ( |  | 7 |
| 5585302139 | Lyric | have a musical rhythm, and their topics often explore romantic feelings or other strong emotions. DO NOT tell a story (like ballad) (Imagine singing it) |  | 8 |
| 5585302140 | Ode | Solely exalts the subject (no lamentation--opposite of elegy) |  | 9 |
| 5585304254 | Prose Poem | Appears as prose (writing), but reads like poetry. While it lacks the line breaks associated with poetry, the prose poem maintains a poetic quality, often utilizing techniques common to poetry, such as fragmentation, compression, repetition, and rhyme. | 10 | |
| 5585304255 | Pantoum | verse form consisting of three stanzas. It has a set pattern within the poem of repetitive lines. The pattern in each stanza is where the second and fourth line of each verse is repeated as the first and third of the next. The pattern changes though for the last stanza to the first and third line are the second and fourth of the stanza above (penultimate). The last line is a repeat of the first starting line of the poem and the third line of the first is the second of the last. (google an example it makes sense) | 11 | |
| 5585306734 | Pastoral | Poems or other works that idealize rural life and landscapes |  | 12 |
| 5585306735 | Terza Rima | tercets woven into a rhyme scheme that requires the end-word of the second line in one tercet to supply the rhyme for the first and third lines in the following tercet. Thus, the rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, ded) continues through to the final stanza or line. Typically Iambic Pentameter |  | 13 |
| 5585308937 | Sestina | 39 Lines. follows a strict pattern of the repetition of the initial six end-words of the first stanza through the remaining five six-line stanzas, culminating in a three-line envoi. The lines may be of any length, though in its initial incarnation, the sestina followed a syllabic restriction. |  | 14 |
| 5585308938 | Petrarchan Sonnet | Octave and a sestet. Iambic Pentameter. Turning point (volta) between stanzas |  | 15 |
| 5585312734 | Shakespearean Sonnet | 14 lines, 3 stanzas and a rhyming couplet, iambic pentameter. Alternating rhyme scheme (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG) | 16 | |
| 5585312735 | Stanza | The natural unit of the lyric: a group or sequence of lines arranged in a pattern. The poem uses white space to create temporal and visual pauses. |  | 17 |
| 5585312736 | Villanelle | Nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The form is made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain. The first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated alternately in the last lines of the succeeding stanzas; then in the final stanza, the refrain serves as the poem's two concluding lines. Example: "Do not go gentle into that good night" |  | 18 |
