In case you’re not familiar with the structures of some form poetry, here’ a little explanation. You can find examples of these forms by using the tags listed in the tag cloud.
anglo saxon verse: accentual poem in which only stressed syllables are counted. in anglo saxon verse, there are typically 4 stressed syllables per line which are further accented by alliteration. the line is divided between the second and third accented syllables by a caesura (pause in the line). a familiar example is Beowulf.
blank verse: unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
cinquain: a syllabic poem with a scheme of 2, 4, 6, 8, 2.
common measure:iambic quatrain stanza, rhyming abcb. Lines one and three have four feet; lines two and four have three.
dramatic monologue: a monologue usually written in heroic couplets (two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter) that focuses on character, usually rather dark in nature.
ghazal: a middle-eastern poem composed of at least 5 couplets connected by a repeating word in the second line of each stanza. there is also a word that thymes with the repeating word directly before the repeating word as to alert the listener of the upcoming rhyme. typically, the author places his name in the last couplet.
western-style ghazal: an image poem in the form of a series of couplets connected by thoughts and themes, as opposed to one central theme.
haiku: an eastern image poem, usually involving nature, that is based on the number of syllables per line instead of the number of stressed syllables. the syllabic scheme is 5, 7, 5.
iambic pentameter: ten syllables per line of alternating un stressed and stressed syllables
heroic couplet: two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter.
sonnet: fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter. rhyme scheme depends on the origin of the specific type of sonnet.
sonnet crown: a series of seven sonnets connected together by linking lines: the last line of the previous sonnet is the first of the next, and so on … the very last line of the last sonnet is the same as the very first line of the first sonnet.
