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| 8424471908 | excerpts from the Quran | Praises all the things Allah did for humanity, talks about how a good Muslim fully submits to Islam. Also discusses ideas of the five pillars Parallelism Repetition Restatement Structural Antithesis | 0 | |
| 8424471909 | On her brother al-Khansa | Remembrance of her brother, a dead but highly achieved and lived warrior. Similes and imagery Persian poetry | 1 | |
| 8424471910 | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | "A book of verses underneath the bough,...we paradise enow!" "The moving finger writes; and, having writ,...word of it" Structural parallelism 4 line quatrain (AABA) Persian poetry | 2 | |
| 8424471911 | Unmarked boxes Rumi | Persian poetry Talks about the different forms that God can appear in, like roses, rainwater, or a horse Imagery Author was a Sufi | 3 | |
| 8424471912 | The pearl, learning, relative, the sick man, the destiny of a wolf cub, and the straight path. Saadi | Combo of six small poems, many of these poems have their title in the poem somewhere. Anecdote- longer than the other 4 Aphorisms- max three lines | 4 | |
| 8424471913 | Sundiata D. T. Niane | the founder of Mali empire. He crushed his enemies and won control of the gold trade routes, he was called many names as well. African epic- oral tradition and read by griots | 5 | |
| 8424471914 | African proverbs | Two to three line lessons like "a river does not flow so far that it forgets its source" | 6 | |
| 8424471915 | Song of a mother to her first born written by Jack H.Driberg | A mothers words to her baby talking of destiny and emphasizes the importance of the first born child. African Cradle song | 7 | |
| 8424471916 | Ogun kills on the right written by Ulli Beier and Bakare Gbadamosi | Ceremonial poem Parallelism with the name Ogun and the massive power he has to kill and rebuild. The message is that you cannot compare yourself to a god. | 8 | |
| 8424471917 | Talk | Folk tale Creatures and objects speak to a farmer. There is also a fisherman that talks to the farmer. | 9 | |
| 8424471918 | The grail | Chivalry and the knights of the round table. A knight is trying his best to be chivalrous but in his fault he tries too hard and thus struggles with self control. He stayed at a castle with his host who gifts him a sword and leaves in the morning. He also speaks with two fishermen before he finds the castle. | 10 | |
| 8424471919 | "The Wife of Bath's Tale" | Written by Geoffrey Chaucer and is about a knight who behaves badly and is sent to find the thing all women want in life if he wants to live, he finds it but has to marry an old lady but she later turns young. | 11 | |
| 8424471920 | "The Nun's priest's tale" | Chucer Is all about a chickens dream of a fox that his love tries to tell him is in important but it turns out to be true. | 12 | |
| 8424471921 | "The Pardoners Tale" | Chaucer; frame story; "greedy for death;" rhyme scheme: cuplet- AABBCCDD | 13 | |
| 8424471922 | Tanka | A Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the rest of seven. | 14 | |
| 8424471923 | Haiku | 3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature | 15 | |
| 8424471924 | Mayan poetry | Structural poetry Usually first person Usually preformed at ceremonies or allude to them. Couplets Repeats key words and phrases | 16 | |
| 8424471925 | Aztec poetry | Free form Mentions feathers, birds, plumes, jade, flowers, and typically ends lines with two words in a foreign language, like ohuaya ohuaya. It also mentions how brief time is in almost all poems. | 17 |
