Poetry is a literally art of stringing words into poems that are meant to have an aesthetic value (such as elegance or beauty) and evoke certain emotions. There are many types of poems that can be written, and here is the list of them.
List of Poem Types | ||
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ABC | ||
Acrostic | ||
Ballad | ||
Ballade | ||
Blank verse | ||
Bio | ||
Burlesque | ||
Canzone | ||
Carpe diem | ||
Cinquain | ||
Classicism | ||
Couplet | ||
Dramatic monologue | ||
Elegy | ||
Epic | ||
Epigram | ||
Epitaph | ||
Epithalamium (Epithalamion) | ||
Free verse (vers libre) | ||
Ghazal | ||
Haiku | ||
Horatian ode | ||
Iambic pentameter | ||
Idyll (Idyl) | ||
Irregular (Pseudo-Pindaric or Cowleyan) ode | ||
Italian sonnet | ||
Lay | ||
Limerick | ||
List | ||
Lyric | ||
Memoriam stanza | ||
Name | ||
Narrative | ||
Ode | ||
Pastoral | ||
Petrarchan | ||
Pindaric ode | ||
Quatrain | ||
Rhyme | ||
Rhyme royal | ||
Romanticism | ||
Rondeau | ||
Senryu | ||
Sestina | ||
Shakespearean | ||
Shape | ||
Sonnet | ||
Tanka | ||
Terza Rima | ||
Verse | ||
Villanelle |