3005776262 | Closed Form | When the poet keeps to a recognized form (number of lines, rhyme sequence and/or meter) | 0 | |
3005787746 | Open form | No actual form is required hence it is open (free) | 1 | |
3005799149 | Sonnet | A fourteen line poem that is either Petrarchan or Shakespearean | 2 | |
3005807904 | Petrarchan Sonnet | Sonnet organized into two groups of eight and six (an octave and sestet). | 3 | |
3005818838 | Shakespearean Sonnet | Sonnet organized into three groups of four lines (quatrains) and one couplet at the end. | 4 | |
3005850622 | Couplet | Two line stanza with an end rhyme | 5 | |
3005854233 | Heroic Couplet | Couplet with an iambic pentameter | 6 | |
3005864247 | Alexandrine | A 12 syllable iambic line (created by Alexander Pope) | 7 | |
3005877856 | Mock Heroic | A poetic satire of an epic | 8 | |
3005881738 | Epic | a long narrative poem with some-sort of a meter or repetition (due to oral telling nature) | 9 | |
3005909549 | Ballad | A popular narrative song passed orally | 10 | |
3005913053 | Ballad Stanza | 4 lines of abcb with lines 1 and 3 having 8 syllables ,and 2 and 4 having 6 | 11 | |
3005922000 | Literary Ballad | A more elaborate and organized ballad | 12 | |
3005929110 | Lyric | A short poem expressing personal feelings; originally made for instrumental accompaniment. | 13 | |
3005938311 | Elegy | Melancholic poem lamenting the dead | 14 | |
3005941476 | Ode | A formal ceremonious lyric poem that celebrates or elevates a particular subject/aspect. | 15 | |
3005950185 | Villanelle | Five three-line stanzas (tercets) and a final quatrain with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternatively in each stanza. | 16 | |
3005961837 | Sestina | poem composed of six six-line stanzas and a three-line conclusion called an envoi. Each line ends with one of six key words. The alternation of these six words in different positions - but always at the ends of lines - the poems six stanzas creates a rhythmic verbal pattern that unifies the poem. | 17 | |
3005972546 | Epigram | A short, abrupt, witty poem | 18 | |
3005983930 | Doggerel | A rhyming poem that becomes distorted to fit the rhyme sequence (a really bad poem) | 19 | |
3005997189 | Limerick | a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines. | 20 | |
3006012115 | Aubade | A love poem or song written about the dawn after a romantic lovers night. | 21 | |
3006050279 | Blank Verse | A poem written in an unrhymed iambic pentameter | 22 |
AP Literature Types of Poetry Flashcards
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