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