Poetry forms.
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| 8050735903 | Poetry Form: ABC Poem | An ABC poem has 5 lines that create a mood, picture, or feeling. Lines 1 through 4 are mad up of words, phrases or clauses- and the first word of each line is in alphabetical order from the first word. Line 5 is one sentence, beginning with any letter. Example: Although things are not perfect Because of trial or pain Continue in thanksgiving Do not begin to blame Even when the times are hard Fierce winds are bound to blow | 0 | |
| 8050735904 | Poetry Form: Anapest | A metrical foot of three syllables, two short (or unstressed) followed by one lone (or stressed). The anapest is the opposite of the dactyl. Example: The AsSYRian came DOWN like the WOLF on the FOLD, | 1 | |
| 8050735905 | Poetry Form: Ballad | A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has repeated refrain. Example: Day after day, day after day We stuck nor breathe, nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean' | 2 | |
| 8050735906 | Poetry Form: Ballade | A type of poem, usually with three stanzas of seven, eight, or ten lines and a shorter final stanza of four or five lines. All stanzas end with the same on-line refrain. Example: Beseeching My Muse Immortal sisters please help me there are so many words to choose. Help, I beseech you, hear my plea I need guidance from you my Muse. Get me started, give me some clues lead with purpose, give me a goal. With you at my side I can't lose, you inspire and uplift my soul. Help me find creativity in letters and words that I use. When I write verse and poetry look over my work, give reviews. Some words I tend to overuse, to make the right choice, and enthuse. You inspire and uplift my soul. I hear orchestral melody, it's a performance to infuse, sweet voices all in harmony I stay to linger and peruse. More than delighted at the news you Muses are making me whole, I'll write and soon have no excuse. You inspire and uplift my soul. I read and sometimes wonder who's been writing the words on my scroll. Calliope, I thank you and Zeus. You inspire and uplift my soul. | 3 | |
| 8050735907 | Poetry Form: Blank verse | Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse is often unobtrusive and the iambic pentameter form often resemble the rhythms of ordinary speech. Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse. Example: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. | 4 | |
| 8050735908 | Poetry Form: Burlesque | Burlesque is a story, play, or essay, that treats a serious subject ridiculously, or is simply a trivial story. Example: Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock", a poem that takes something seemingly trivial (a lady getting a lock of her hair cut off) and turns it all into a big ol' hullabaloo. | 5 | |
| 8050735909 | Poetry Form: Canzone | A medieval Italian lyric poem, with five or six stanzas and a shorter concluding stanza (or envoy). The poet Patriarch was a master of the canzone. | 6 | |
| 8050735910 | Poetry Form: Carpe diem | A latin expression that means "seize the day." Carpe diem poems have the theme of living for today. Example: Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. | 7 | |
| 8050735911 | Poetry Form: Cinquain | A cinquain has five lines. Line 1 is one word (the title) Line 2 is two words that describe the title. Line 3 is three words that tell the action. Line 4 is four words that express the feeling. Line 5 is one word that recalls the title. Example: Snow Lovely, white Falling, dancing, drifting Covering everything it touches Blanket | 8 | |
| 8050735912 | Poetry Form: Classicism | The principles and ideals of beauty that are characteristic of Greek and Roman art, architecture, and literature. Examples of classicism in poetry can be found in the works of John Dryden and Alexander Pope, which are characterized by their formality, simplicity, and emotional restraint. Example: In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in a vestal's veins? Why rove my thoughts beyond this last retreat? Why feels my heart its long-forgotten heat? | 9 | |
| 8050735913 | Poetry Form: Couplet | A couplet has rhyming stanzas each made up of two lines. Shakespearean sonnets usually end in a couplet. Example: "So, till the judgement that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes." | 10 | |
| 8050735914 | Poetry Form: Elegy | A sad and thoughtful poem lamenting the death of a person. An example of this type of poem is Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Example: My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. | 11 | |
| 8050735915 | Poetry Form: Epic | A long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure. Two of the most famous epic poems are the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer and the epic poem of Hiawatha. | 12 | |
| 8050735916 | Poetry Form: Epigram | A very short, satirical and witty poem usually written as a brief couplet or quatrain. The term epigram is derived from the Greek word epigramma, meaning inscription. The epigram was cultivated in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by poets like Ben Jonson and John Donne. Example: "To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour" | 13 | |
| 8050735917 | Poetry Form: Epitaph | An epitaph is a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument written in a praise of a deceased person. Example: Reader, I am to let thee know, Donne's body only lies below; For could the grave his soul comprise, Earth would be richer than the skies. | 14 | |
| 8050735918 | Poetry Form: Epithalamium (or Epithalamion) | A wedding poem written in honor of a bride and bridegroom. Example: Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls Married impossible men? Simple self-sacrifice may be ruled out, And missionary endeavour, nine times out of ten. | 15 | |
| 8050735919 | Poetry Form: Form | Form is the generic term for the organizing principle of a literary work. In poetry, form is described in terms elements like rhyme, meter, and stanzaic pattern. | 16 | |
| 8050735920 | Poetry Form: Free verse (also vers libre) | Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern or expectation. Example: After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds; After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes, Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks, Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship. | 17 | |
| 8050735921 | Poetry Form: Haiku | A japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Haik reflects on some aspect of nature. Example: An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again. Autumn moonlight— a worm digs silently into the chestnut. Lightning flash— what I thought were faces are plumes of pampas grass. | 18 | |
| 8050735922 | Poetry Form: Heroic couplet | A stanza composed of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter. Example: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. | 19 | |
| 8050735923 | Poetry Form: Idyll (also Idyl) | Either a short poem depicting a peaceful, idealized country scene, or a long poem that tells a story about heroes of a bye gone age. Example: Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield. | 20 | |
| 8050735924 | Poetry Form: Lay | A lay is a long narrative poem, especially one that was sung by medieval minstrels called trouveres. Example: The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His wither'd cheek, and tresses gray, Seem'd to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. | 21 | |
| 8050735925 | Poetry Form: Limerick | A short sometimes bawdy, humorous poem of consisting of five anapestic lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 of a Limerick have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other. Example: "There was an Old Man with a beard Who said, 'It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!'" | 22 | |
| 8050735926 | Poetry Form: Lyric | A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now generally referred to as the words to a song. Example: I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm. | 23 | |
| 8050735927 | Poetry Form: Name poem | A name poem tells about the word. It uses the letters of the wor for the first letter of each line. Example: Nicky is a Nurse It's her chosen career Children or Old folks Kindness in abundance Year after year | 24 | |
| 8050735928 | Poetry Form: Narrative Poem | Ballads, epics, and lays are different kinds of narrative poems. | 25 | |
| 8050735929 | Poetry Form: Ode | John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is probably the most famous example of this type of poem which is long and serious in nature written to a set structure. Example: Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? | 26 | |
| 8050735930 | Poetry Form: Ottava rima | A type of poetry consisting of 10- or 11-syllable lines arranged in 8-line "octaves" with the rhyme scheme abababcc Example: He is There When sorrow lies entrenched within your heart And doubts, like ocean waves, around you churn, When chaos reigns o'er life and won't depart And for the peace of yesterday you yearn, When evil thoughts are tearing you apart And there is nowhere left for you to turn, When dark of night persists throughout your day, It's time to fall upon your knees and pray. For God is there, He's always by your side, He is your life's companion and your friend, He's with you through each bitter storm you ride, From morn's first light to sunset at day's end. You must give up your bitterness and pride And to your Lord extend your hand again. He only wants for you to ask Him in And you will be forgiven for your sin. | 27 | |
| 8050735931 | Poetry Form: Pastoral | A poem that depicts rural life in a peaceful, idealized way for example of shepherds or country life. Example: Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield. There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. | 28 | |
| 8050735932 | Poetry Form: Quatrain | A stanza or poem of four lines. Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme. Lines 1 and 3 may or may not rhyme. Rhyming lines should have a similar number of syllables. Example: Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? | 29 | |
| 8050735933 | Poetry Form: Senryu | A short Japanese poem that is similar to a haiku in structure but treats human beings rather than nature, often in a humorous but satiric way. Example: The robber, If I catch, My own son | 30 | |
| 8050735934 | Poetry Form: Tanka | A Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the rest of seven. Example: A cool wind blows in With a blanket of silence. Straining to listen For those first few drops of rain, The storm begins in earnest. | 31 | |
| 8050735935 | Poetry Form: Terza rima | A type of poetry consisting of 10 or 11 syllable lines arranged in three-line "tercets". The poet Dante is credited with inventing terza rima and it has been used by many English poets including Chaucer, Milton, Shelley, and Auden. Example: O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing | 32 | |
| 8050735936 | Poetry Form: Sonnet | English (or Shakespearean) sonnets are lyric poems that are 14 lines long falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet. Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnets are divided into two quatrains and a six-line sestet. (look at notes) | 33 |
