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| In a general sense. Form is the means by which a literary work expresses it's content. In poetry, form is usually used to describe the design of the poem. |
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| A traditional verse form requiring certain predetermined elements of structure. Ex: a stanza pattern, set meter, or predetermined line length |
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| Poetry written in a patter of meter, rime, lines, or stanzas. Adheres to set structure |
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| Verse that has no set scheme. No regular meter, rime or stanzaic pattern. AKA Free Verse |
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| contains five iambic feet per line and is not rimed |
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| a two lined stanza in poetry, usually rimed and with lines of equal length |
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| Two rimed lines of iambic pentameter that usually contain an independent and complete though or statement. AKA heroic couplet |
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| a stanza consisting of four lines, it is the most common stanza form in English language poetry |
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| a long narrative poem tracing the adventures of a popular hero. Usually written in a consistent form and meter throughout |
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| A very short, comic poem, often turning at the end with some sharp wit or unexpected stinger |
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| A fixed form of fourteen lines, traditionally written in iambic pentameter and rimed throughout. |
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| AKA Petrarchan Sonnet. Rimes the octave (first and eighth lines) the sestet (the last six lines) may follow any rime pattern as long as it does not end in a couplet. The poem turns, or shifts in mood or tone after the octave. |
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| AKA Shakespearean Sonnet. Has the following rime scheme organized into three quatrains and a concluding couplet: abab cdcd efef gg. The poem may turn (shift the mood or tone) between any of the rime clusters. |
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| Placing a pair of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences side by side in agreement or similarity |
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| Poetic language printed in prose paragraphs, but displaying the careful attention to sound, imagery, and figurative language characteristic of poetry. |
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| A visual poetry composed exclusively for the page in which a picture or image is made of printed letters and words. Concrete poetry attempts to blur the line between language and visual objects, usually relying on puns and cleverness. |
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