The initial letters of each line make a word when read downwards
Acrostic Poem
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Formal poem which tells a dramatic story
Ballad
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Form invented by Crapsey with the syllabic count 2 4 6 8 2
Cinquain
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Poem created by bringing together sentences and phrases from different sources
Collage Poem
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A lyrical poem with a melancholy theme
Elegy
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Welsh lyrical poem with syllabic count 10 6 7 7
Englyn
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Long narrative poem with a generally heroic topic
Epic
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Song created by the people and transmitted orally
Folk Song
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Japanese poem of three lines with syllabic count 5 7 5
Haiku
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Popular form of humorous and nonsense poetry often with the rhyme scheme A A B B A
Limerick
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Poem that tells a story or narrate a series of events
Narrative Poem
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Lyrical poem with a more complex organisation and greater development than the lyric
Ode
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A poem or sentence that reads the same backwards as forwards
Palindrome
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Sonnet which divides into an eight-lined octave and a six-lined sestet
Petrarchan Sonnet
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A form of writing written in prose, but with the intensity and compression of a poem
Prose Poem
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Sonnet using three quatrains and a closing couplet
Shakespearian Sonnet
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A poem of nineteen lines divided into three stanzas and concluding with a quatrain. It only uses two rhymes, the first line is repeated as the last line of the second and fourth stanza as well as the last-but-one line of the poem
Villanelle
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Formal poem which tells a dramatic story
Back
Ballad
Card 3
Front
Form invented by Crapsey with the syllabic count 2 4 6 8 2
Back
Card 4
Front
Poem created by bringing together sentences and phrases from different sources
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