Famous Examples
A famous acrostic and the author.
What is "An Acrostic" by Edgar Allan Poe?
What is 5-7-5, from Japan and Nature?
A poem that has no regular rhythm, rhyme scheme or structure.
What is a free verse poem?
A poem that starts with each letter of the alphabet.
What is an ABC Poem?
A famous elegy and author.
What is O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman?
A famous sonnet and the author.
What is "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" by Willliam Shakespeare?
A formal, ceremonious, lyric poem that celebrates a person, place, thing or idea.
What is an ode?
A mournful lament for the dead. Talks about loss of a loved one or celebrates someone's life.
What is an elegy?
A poem where the first letter of each line or last letter of each line spells something the poem is about.
A nonet.
A poem that starts with 9 syllables on the first line,
Then 8 syllables on the next line,
Then 7 syllables on the next line
Then 6 syllables on the next line on to 1 syllable.
A famous villanelle and the author.
What is "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas?
A poem that reveals information about the the writer or author to the reader.
What is a Bio Poem?
A poem that is written so that the words create that shape of the subject of the poem.
What is a concrete poem?
A narrative poem that tells a story and was originally set to music. There are still some today.
What is a ballad?
A lyrical poem with 19 lines (5 tercets and a quatrain) with only two rhymes.
What is a villanelle?
A famous limerick author and his book of limericks.
Who is Edward Lear and what is The Book of Nonsense?
A poem in which the passage can be read from top to bottom or bottom to top and usually expresses an opposite opinion each way.
What is a reversal poem?
What is an epic?
A limerick, how many lines, rhyme scheme.
What is a silly poem with 5 lines and a AABBA rhyme scheme.
What is an emotion poem?
A famous reversal poem and author.
What is The Lost Generation by Johnathan Reed?
14 lines, iambic pentameter, three quatrains and a couplet, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG - famous ones by Shakespeare
What is a sonnet?
A poem with a strict rhyming structure with 3 line stanzas. Rhyme pattern is aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc.
What is a Terza Rima?
What is when the poet takes existing text and blacks out or obscures part of the words creating a new work from what remains?
Poetry with no rhymes (blank) but is written in iambic pentameter (10 syllables alternating between stressed and unstressed).
What is blank verse?