Types of Poetry Flashcards

Types of Poetry

• Narrative Poetry: Tells a story, blending elements of both poetry and prose.
• Ballad: A traditional storytelling poem often sung or read aloud, crafted to convey tales of love, adventure, or tragedy.
• Blank Verse: Comprises unrhymed lines with a consistent rhythm or syllable pattern, commonly used in English dramatic and epic poetry.
• Elegy: A serious and sorrowful poem, typically mourning the death of a revered individual.
• Epic: A lengthy narrative poem that celebrates the deeds of legendary figures, often rooted in historical or cultural narratives.
• Free Verse: Lacks fixed patterns of rhythm or rhyme, allowing poets the freedom to express thoughts without structural constraints.
• Haiku: A three-line Japanese poem following a 5-7-5 syllable structure, reflecting on nature or the poet's emotions connected to it.
• Light Verse: Includes amusing, playful compositions such as limericks, often designed to entertain.
• Lyric Poetry: Short, musical poetry that conveys the poet's personal emotions and thoughts.
• Ode: A formal and often lengthy poem dedicated to praising a person, object, or event.
• Prose Poetry: Combines poetic features with prose format; lacks line breaks and traditional poetic structure.
• Sonnet: Comprises 14 lines, typically in iambic pentameter, often exploring themes of love with established rhyme schemes.
• Limerick: A five-line humorous poem characterized by a distinct rhythm and rhyme scheme.
• Line: A single row of words in a poem, serving as a fundamental unit of poetic structure.
• Stanza: A grouping of lines in a poem, functioning similarly to a paragraph in prose.
• Rhyme: The repetition of similar sounds at the end of words, creating a musical quality in poetry.
• Rhythm: The organized pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, contributing to the flow and movement of poetry.