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