Poems

Poems - Types Of Poems

Here are some very helpful tips on different types of poems.
1. Lyric: subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyne scheme and which reveals the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression.

2. Narrative: non-dramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter, which relates a story or narrative.

3. Sonnet(lyric): a rigid 14 line verse form, with variable structure and scheme according to type:A. Shakespearean(English): 3 quatrains and concluding couplet in iambic pentameter, rhymin abab cdcd efef gg or abba cddc effe gg.
B. Italian(Petrarchan): an octave and sestet, between which a break thought occurs. The traditional rhyme scheme is abbe abbe cafe cafe the sestet, any variation of c,d,e.

4. Ode(lyric): elaborate lyric verse, which deals seriously with a dignified theme.

5. Blank Verse: unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter.

6. Free Verse: unrhymed lines without regular rhythm.

7. EPic: a long, dignified narrative poem, which gives the account of a hero important to his nation or race.

8. Dramatic Monologue: a lyric poem, which the speaker tells an audience about a dramatic moment in his/her life and, in doing so, revels his/her character.

9. Elegy(lyric): a poem of lament, meditating on the death of an individual.

10. Ballad(lyric): simple, narrative verse which tells a story to be sung or recited; the folk band is anonymously handed down, while the literary ballad has a single author.

11. Idyll or Pastoral(lyric): lyric poetry describing the life of the shepard in pastoral, bucolic, idealistic terms.

12. Villanelle(lyric): a French verse from strictly calculated to appear simple and spontaneous: fiev tercets and a final quatrain, rhyming aba aba aba aba aba abaa. Lines 1,6,12,18 and 3,9,15,19 are refrain.

13. Light Verse: a general category of poetry written to entertain, such as lyric poetry, epigrams, and limericks. It can also have a serious side, as in parody or satire.

14. Haiku: Japanese verse in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, often depicting a delicate image.

15. Limerick: humorous nonsense verse in five anapestic lines rhyming aabba: a-lines being trimeter and b-lines dimeter.

Poems - Favorite Pieces Of Poetry

Go, Lovely Rose! By Edmund Waller Go, lovely Rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and me,That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee,How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Tell her that's young,And shuns to have her gracies spied,That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.

Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.

Then die! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee; How small a part of time they share tha are so wondrous sweet and fair!

The Negro Speaks of Rivers By Langston Hughes I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than theflow of human blood in veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen it's muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.