Poetry

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Ballad
four and three stress lines and simple repeating rhymes
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Blank verse
regular meter, no rhyme often iambic pentameter
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free verse
No meter or rhyme
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Elegy
poem of mourning, or, a sad poem, no set form
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Epic
hexameters normally
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Epigram
short ironic poem,written in brief couplets or quatrains
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Ghazal
couplets which share a rhyme
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Haiku
three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five
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Lanterne
1 syllable in 1st line,2 in 2nd, 3in 3rd, 4 in 4th, 1 in 5th
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Ode
lengthy lyric poem serious nature, formal stanza structure
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Quintella
eight syllable (Iambic Tetrameter) lines
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Sestina
six six-line stanzas, three-line envoy (thirty-nine lines)
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Sonnet
14 lines, one or more conventional rhyme schemes.
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Villanelle
19-line poem, of five tercets, final quatrain on two rhymes
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Card 2

Front

regular meter, no rhyme often iambic pentameter

Back

Blank verse

Card 3

Front

No meter or rhyme

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

poem of mourning, or, a sad poem, no set form

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

hexameters normally

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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