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| 8365007230 | Lyric | Subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter which reveals the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression | 0 | |
| 8365016553 | Narrative | nondramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or narrative | 1 | |
| 8365023052 | Sonnet | a rigid 14-line verse form, with variable structure and rhyme scheme according to type: Shakespearean, Spenserian sonnet, and Italian | 2 | |
| 8365045333 | Shakespearean (English) Sonnet | Three quatrains and concluding couplet in iambic pentameter, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg or abba cddc effe gg. | 3 | |
| 8365064803 | Spenserian sonnet | a specialized form with linking rhyme abab bcbc cdcd ee | 4 | |
| 8365094077 | Italian (Petrarchan) | an octave and sestet, between which a break in thought occurs. The traditional rhyme scheme is abba abba code code (or in the sestet, any variation of c, d, e) | 5 | |
| 8365113102 | Ode | Elaborate lyric verse which deals seriously with a dignified theme | 6 | |
| 8365119049 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter | 7 | |
| 8365124264 | Limerick | Humorous nonsense-verse in five anapestic lines rhyming abba, a-lines being trimeter and b-lines dimeter | 8 | |
| 8365159214 | Free verse | unrhymed lines without regular rhythm | 9 | |
| 8365159215 | Epic | A long, dignified narrative poem which gives the account of a hero important to his nation or race | 10 | |
| 8365168927 | Dramatic Monologue | A lyric poem in which the speaker tells an audience about a dramatic moment in his/her life and, in doing so, reveals his/her character | 11 | |
| 8365176751 | Elegy | A poem of lament, meditating on the death of an individual | 12 | |
| 8365181348 | Ballad | Simple, narrative verse which tells a story to be sung or recited; the folk ballad is anonymously handed down, while the literary ballad has a single author | 13 | |
| 8365194588 | Idyll | Lyric poetry describing the life of the shepherd in pastoral, bucolic idealistic terms | 14 | |
| 8365203532 | Villanelle | A french verse form, strictly calculated to appear simple and spontaneous; five tercets an a final quatrain, rhyming aha aha aha aha aha abaa. lines 1,6,12,18 and 3,9,15,19 are refrain | 15 |
