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Lyric
A short poem expressing personal emotions, focuses on one emotion.
Narrative
A form of poetry telling a story, combining storytelling elements with poetic devices like form, meter, and rhyme.
Odes
Formal lyric poems celebrating, appreciating, or dedicating to a specific subject, serious in tone, without strict line or stanza requirements.
Ballads
Poems telling stories in four-line stanzas, may have various rhyme schemes and meters, not limited to a specific structure.
Free Verse
Poetry without regular rhythm or rhyme patterns, flowing naturally like everyday speech, may contain rhythmic and sound effects.
Sestina
A complex French fixed form verse with six stanzas of six lines each and a three-line envoi, repeating end words in a specific pattern.
Elegy
A lyric poem meditating on death, often a tribute to the deceased, serious in tone and formal in diction.
Sonnet
14 lined poem, written in iambic pentameter. Consists of 3 quatrains and 1 couplet. The typical rhyme scheme is: abab cdcd efef gg.
Blank verse
Iambic and pentameter
Iambic
*/
Trochee
/*
Anapest
**/
Dactyl
/**
Spondee
//
Pyrrhic
**
Monometer
1 foot
Dimeter
2 feet
Trimeter
3 feet
Tetrameter
4 feet
Pentameter
5 feet
hexameter
6 feet
Heptameter
7 feet
Octameter
8 feet
