Types

5. Meant to be theatrically read to an audience, containing the words and feelings of a single speaker.
7. Japanese form of three lines with 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables respectively, usually about natural imagery traditionally featuring a sharp contrast between two ideas or images
8. A lyrical poem of fourteen lines usually written in rhymed (varied) iambic pentameter with adherence to a tightly structured thematic organization.
9. A poem’s visual representation on the page adds emphasis to the actual words in the poem.
11. Form of poetry in which the speaker expresses grief, sadness, or loss.

1. A relatively short poem which tells a story. There are two types of ballads, folk ballads, and literary ballads. Shows rather than tells the trail of crucial events. Usually composed in quatrain stanzas.
2. Lines of verse that do not have a regular meter and do not contain rhyme
3. Long Narrative verse that retells a heroic journey
4. A poem that tells a story, whether briefly like a ballad, or at length like an epic.
6. A short, songlike poem that expresses the speaker’s personal emotions and feelings.
10. A lyrical poem that is lofty and dignified in subject matter and style. Relate strongest sentiments in a formal address to an event, person, or object.