Poem or Verse Forms and Types


 * alba
 * aubade
 * ballad
 * ballade
 * bucolic or pastoral
 * cento or pastiche
 * chanson
 * choric ode
 * cinquain
 * clerihew
 * complaint
 * conversation poem
 * dirge
 * dithyramb
 * ditty
 * double dactyl
 * dramatic poem
 * dramatic monologue
 * eclogue
 * elegiac poem
 * elegy
 * encomium
 * epic poem
 * epigram
 * epithalamion or epithalamium
 * epode
 * epyllion
 * free verse
 * georgic
 * haiku
 * hymn
 * idyll
 * jingle
 * lay
 * limerick
 * lyric poem
 * macaronic
 * madrigal
 * monody
 * narrative poem
 * nursery rhyme
 * ode
 * palinode
 * pastoral or bucolic
 * prothalamion
 * psalm
 * quatorzain
 * renga
 * reverdie
 * rondeau
 * rondel or roundel
 * roundelay
 * saga
 * sapphics
 * satire
 * sestina
 * song
 * sonnet
 * sonnet sequence
 * tanka
 * threnody
 * triolet
 * troubadour poem
 * verse epistle
 * villanelle
 * virelay