Ballad
Long poem tells story usually folk or legend
In rhyme often set with music
In rhyme often set with music
Concrete
Experiment with very materials of poem itself : words format and letter. The final product does what it say the meaning of poem demonstrated by words letters and format.
Elegy
Written to mourn the passing of something or someone
Epic
Very very long poem that tells the story
Long enough to be a book by itself
Long enough to be a book by itself
Epitaph
About dead written on tombstone
Short
Short
Epigram
Very short
Makes pithy pronouncement about something
Usually written as a couplet
Makes pithy pronouncement about something
Usually written as a couplet
Free verse
Modern poetry no regular pattern rhythm rhyme or line length
Lyric
Short poem of intend feeling and emotion
Narrative
A poem tell story
Ode
Serious form of lyric
Serious topic or very dignified
If not stately ,in tone or style
Serious topic or very dignified
If not stately ,in tone or style
Sonnet
14line lyrics
Written in iambic pentameter
Rigid rhyme scheme
English sonnet and Italian sonnet
Written in iambic pentameter
Rigid rhyme scheme
English sonnet and Italian sonnet
