Types in Form

1. often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems (5, 4)
4. includes superhuman deeds, fabulous adventures, highly stylized language, and a blending of lyrical and dramatic traditions (4)
6. most commonly used as mnemonic devices and word games for children, such as those written by Dr. Seuss and Edward Gorey (11)
7. one of the oldest Japanese forms, originated in the seventh century, and quickly became the preferred verse form in the Japanese Imperial Court (5)
8. from the Latin ‘epistula’ for ‘letter’—are, quite literally, poems that read as letters (7)

2. plants one foot in prose, the other in poetry, both heels resting precariously on banana peels (5, 4)
3. one of the principal forms of music and poetry in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France (7)
5. originated in Malaysia in the fifteenth-century as a short folk poem, typically made up of two rhyming couplets that were recited or sung (7)
8. candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker (7)
9. from the Latin word for ‘patchwork,' a poetic form made up of lines from poems by other poets (5)

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