Types of Poems
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- Epic
- a long serious poem that tells a story about a hero often set in the romantic past, odyssey, Beowulf
- lyric
- subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and which reveals the poet\'s thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression
- narrative
- non-dramatic, objective verse with regualr rhuyme scheme and meter, which relates a story or narrative.
- shakespearean sonnet
- 3 quatrains and concluding couplet in iambic pentameter, rhyming scheme abab cdcd efef gg or abba cddc effe gg.
- Italian sonnet
- an octave and ststet, between which a break thought occurs. the traditional rhyme scheme is abbe abbe cafe cafe the sestet, any variation of c,d,e.
- blank verse
- unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
- free verse
- unrhymed lines without regular rhythm.
- dramatic monologue
- a lyric poem, which the speaker tells and audience about a dramatic moment in his/her life and, in doing so, reveals his/her character.
- idyll
- lyric poetry describing the life of the Shepard in pastoral, bucolic, idealistic terms.
- light verse
- a general category of poetry written to entertain, such as lyric poetry, epigrams, and limericks. it can also have a serious side,, as in parody or satire.
- limerick
- humorous nonsense verse in five anapestic lines rhyming aabba: a-lines being trimeter and b-lines dimeter