Poetry A-Z
A: acrostic poems
- don’t rhyme
- describe someone/something
- line begins with the letter of the subject
B: blessing and prayer poems
- meant to call on protection or good fortune for a subject
- usually starts with may or let
C: Clerihew poems
- about a celebrity
- meant to poke gentle fun at them
- celebrity’s name- ends last line
- made up of couplets (2 lines that do not rhyme)
- most lines begin with "may ..."
- meant to settle things that aggravate you
D: poems of direct address
- talks directly to another person or thing
- express deep feelings
E: Epic
- a long narrative poem
- celebrating the adventures and achievements of a hero
- traditions, mythical of historical parts of a nation
F: Fable
- poetic story
- composed: verse or prose
- moral summed up at the end
G: Ghazal
- odd number chain of couplets
- each couplet, its own poem
- few repeating phrases
H: Haiku
- 3 lines
- 5, 7, then 5 syllables per line
- focus: nature
I: I Wish
- each line starts with " I wish"
- 8-10 lines long
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K: Kyrielle
- French form of poetry
- 4 line stanzas
- each line has 8 syllables
- the last line of each stanza rhymes
L: Limerick
- 5 lines long
- lines 1,2, and 5 rhyme
- lines 3 and 4 rhyme
M: Minute Poetry
- rhyming verse
- 12 lines, 60 syllables
- 3 stanzas each stanza has 8,4,4,4 syllables
- lines 1, and 2 rhyme, lines 3, and 4 rhyme
N: Nonet
- 9 line poem
- 1st line has 9 syllables
- 2nd, 8
- 3rd, 7
- ect.
O: Ode
- a poem that praises a person or thing
Q: Quatern
- sixteen line French style
- composed of four quadrants or stanzas
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