| Poem | Brief Description | Example Link |
|---|---|---|
| Acrostic | Poetry in which certain letters (usually the first in each line) form a word or a message when read in a sequence. | A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky by Lewiss Carroll |
| Ballade | Poetry with three stanzas of seven, eight, or ten lines and a final stanza of four or five lines. All stanzas end with the same one line refrain. | Ballade [I die of thirst beside the fountain] by François Villon |
| Concrete | Poetry in which the shape of the lines are placed used to enhance the meaning of the poem. Sometomes referred to as 'visual poetry' or 'size poetry'. | Valentine by Lorna Dee Cervantes |
| Epigram | A short, ironic, and witty poem usually written as a couplet or quatrain. | from Epigrams: A Journal, #30 by J.V. Cunningham |
| Pastoral | A poem that depicts rural life in a peaceful and romanticized way. | The End of Landscape by Randall Mann |
| Rondeau | A lyrical poem originating in France consisting of 10 or 13 lines with only two rhymes and the opening phrase repeated as the refrain. | The Parlement of Fowls by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Sestina | A poem containing six six-line stanzas in which the end words of each line is repeated in a different order as the end words of the other stanzas. The poem ends with a three-line stanza in which all six end words are used: two per line at the middle and the end of each line. | Homes by Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman |
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