Types of Poems

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Across
  1. 2. story to be sung or recited
  2. 6. category of poetry written to entertain
  3. 8. lament, meditating on a death
  4. 10. unrhymed lines without regular rhythm
  5. 13. poem that tells a story
  6. 16. speaker addresses audience
  7. 17. reflective, regular rhyme scheme/meter
Down
  1. 1. unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
  2. 3. type of sonnet, aka English
  3. 4. deals seriously with a dignified theme
  4. 5. humorous nonsense-verse, anapestic
  5. 7. rigid 14-line verse form, 2 types
  6. 9. type of sonnet, aka Petrarchan
  7. 11. a French verse form,strictly calculated
  8. 12. Japanese verse with specified syllables
  9. 14. describes the life of the shepherd
  10. 15. dignified narrative poem about a hero