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| 5340969021 | aubade | lyric poem delivered at dawn or about dawn, renewal, love blossoming, or any other kind of "new" | 0 | |
| 5340976178 | ballad | a song-like poem | 1 | |
| 5340979187 | elegy | a type of literature defined as a song or poem that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one who has died | 2 | |
| 5340985438 | epigram | a short poem or verse that seeks to ridicule a thought or event, usually with witticism or sarcasm | 3 | |
| 5340992017 | epitaph | a short poem or verse written in memory of someone, usually short and often written in death or as a eulogy | 4 | |
| 5340999588 | limerick | a short humorous poem composed of five lines that usually has the rhyme scheme aabba, created by two rhyming couplets and a fifth line | 5 | |
| 5341008741 | lyric | a song-like poem written mainly to express the feelings or emotions of a single speaker | 6 | |
| 5341015000 | villanelle | French, 19 lines, five tercets followed by a quatrain, aba aba aba aba aba abaa | 7 | |
| 5341026909 | sonnet | usually 14 lines | 8 | |
| 5341029893 | narrative | a poem that tells a story | 9 | |
| 5341031985 | ode | long, serious poem that treats a noble or elevated subject in a dignified manner | 10 | |
| 5341037866 | epic | long narrative poem that recounts the adventures of a hero to almost mythic proportions | 11 | |
| 5341042052 | haiku | a traditional form of Japanese poetry that usually deals with nature, 3 lines and describes a single moment, feeling, or thing, the first and third line have 5 syllables and the second line contains 7 syllables | 12 | |
| 5341054015 | sestina | French verse form consisting of 6 sestets and a 3-line envoy (a brief, concluding stanza of a poem, often addressed to a patron, important person, or abstract entity) | 13 | |
| 5341074746 | Italian or Petrarchan sonnet | usually written in iambic pentameter. it consists first of an octave, or 8 lines, which asks a question or states a problem or proposition and follows the rhyme scheme abba abba. the sestet, or last 6 lines, offers an answer or resolution to the proposed problem and follows the rhyme scheme cdecde | 14 | |
| 5341094780 | English or Shakespearean sonnet | 3 quatrains with independent rhyme schemes with alternating rhyme, ending with a rhyming couplet. break between the 12th and 13th lines. the ending couplet is the main thought change of the poem and has an epigrammatic ending. abab cdcd efef gg | 15 | |
| 5341115559 | Spenserian sonnet | follows same basic form as English sonnet with 3 quatrains rhyming abab bcbc cdcd to link quatrains with a couplet of ee | 16 | |
| 5341127548 | almost sonnets | curtal sonnet- 10 line form divided into 6 line stanza with 4 line stanza inverted sonnet- flipped the form, beginning with the couplet | 17 | |
| 5341138265 | two line stanza | couplet | 18 | |
| 5341142301 | three line stanza | tercet | 19 | |
| 5341142302 | four line stanza | quatrain | 20 | |
| 5341146994 | five line stanza | cinquain or quintet | 21 | |
| 5341150189 | six line stanza | sestet or sextet | 22 | |
| 5341152591 | seven line stanza | septet | 23 | |
| 5341154798 | eight line stanza | octave | 24 | |
| 5341154799 | fourteen line stanza | sonnet | 25 | |
| 5341163985 | meter | regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables | 26 |
