short, subjective poem with imagination and melody that creates a single impression (shows Emotions of speaker, poet)

tells a story with regular rhyme scheme

14-line poem (Shakespearean, Petrarchan)

elaborate lyric poem that deals seriously with an important subject

unrhymed iambic pentameter (Shakespeare)

unrhymed lines without a particular rhythm

long, narrative poem recounting the adventures of a hero

a lyric poem in which a speaker tells an unidentifiable listener about an event, called “the soul in motion” by some

mournful poem about death

simple, narrative poem to be sung or recited

short lyric poem that is descriptive, narrative, and pastoral (shepherd life)

a nineteen-line French poem with five tercets and a quatrain with the rhyme aba aba aba aba aba abaa; lines 1, 6, 12, 18, and 3, 9, 15, 19 are refrains

humorous, witty poetry written to entertain (ex: lyric, limerick)

serious Japanese poem in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables

humorous poem in five anapestic lines rhyming aabba with the a-lines being trimeter and b-lines being dimeter

three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc

couplets written in iambic pentameter

seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc

alternating lines of four and three accents

old spelling of rhyme

rhyme at the end of lines

rhyme within a line

pattern of rhyme

only the last, accented syllables of the rhyming words correspond exactly in sound (ex: skies/eyes, night/light)

two consecutive syllables of the rhyming words rhyme (ex: flying/dying)

rhyme that is not exact (ex: sea/beaks); Dickinson uses this often