Across
- 2. - a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next.
- 4. - a poem written in elegiac couplets, as notably by Catullus and Propertius.
- 8. - a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.
- 9. - a long, narrative poem that is usually about heroic deeds and events that are significant to the culture of the poet.
- 10. - a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
Down
- 1. - a lyric poem, typically one in the form of an address to a particular subject, written in varied or irregular metre.
- 3. - poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm.
- 5. - also known as blackout poetry, is a form of found poetry wherein a poet takes an existing text and erases, blacks out, or otherwise obscures a large portion of the text, creating a wholly new work from what remains.
- 6. - a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line ends in six different sequences.
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