Consolidated List of Poetic Forms and Terms
Abbreviated Haiku I
Abbreviated Haiku II
Abecedarium
Abecedarius
Abstract Language
Abstract Poetry
Academic Verse
Acatalectic
Accentual Verse
Accentual-Syllabic Verse
Acephalexis
Acrostic
Adonics
Adynaton
Ae Freislighe
Alba
Alcaics
Alexandrine
Alexandrine Couplets
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Alternating Quatrain
Alternating Sonnet
Amphibrach
Amphigory
Anachronism
Anaclasis
Anacreontic Ode
Anacreontics
Anacrusis
Anapest
Anaphora
Anglo-Saxon Accentual Verse
Anthimeria
Aubade
Awdl gywydd
Bagarthach Verses
Balada
Balassi stanza
Ballad Measure
Ballade
Ballade Royale
Ballade Supreme
Ballade Supreme with Double Refrain
Ballade with Double Refrain
Barzelletta
Beast Epic
Bestiary
Bina
Bio Poem
Blank Verse
Blason
Blessing
Blues Sonnet
Blues Stanza
Boast
Bob and Wheel
Bouts-Rimés
Bowlesian Sonnet
Brace Octave
Brag
Bref Double
Bridging Title
Bucolic
Burns Stanza
Byr A Thoddaid
Côte
Calligramme
Cameo
Cancione
Canticle
Canzone
Canzone II
Capitolo
Carol
Casbairdne
Catalog Poem
Catch or Caccia
Caudate Sonnet
Cento
Chained Sonnet
Chanso
Chanson de Geste
Chant
Chant Royal
Chant Royal with Double Refrain
Chante-Fable
Chantey
Charm
Choka
Choral Lyric
Choriambics
Cinq-Cinquain
Cinquain
Classical Hendecasyllable
Classical Heroic Line
Classical Hexameter
Classical Pentameter
Clerihew
Clogyrnach
Closed Verse
Coin Poem
Comedy
Common Measure
Common Octave
Complaint
Compound Acrostic
Concrete Poem
Corona
Corona of Sonnets
Count Down
Count Up
Couplet Envelope
Couplet Sonnet
Couplets
Cowleyan Ode
Crambo
Crown of Sonnets
Curse
Curtal Long Hymnal Stanza
Curtal Quatrain
Curtal Sonnet
Cyhydedd Fer
Cyhydedd Hir
Cyhydedd Naw Ban
Cyrch a Chwta
Cywydd deuair fyrion
Cywydd deuair hirion
Cywydd Llosgyrnog
Dabali Shairi
Dactyl
Dactylic Hexameter
Dada
Dansa
Deachnadh Mor
Debat
Decastich
Decrina
Deibhidhe
Descort
Deten
Dialogue
Diamante
Diaspora Sonnet
Didactic
Diminishing Verse
Dipodic Quatrain
Dithyramb
Ditty
Dizain
Dodoitsu
Doggerel
Domino Rhyme
Dorsimbra
Double
Double Acrostic
Double Ballade
Double Ballade Supreme
Double Ballade with Eight-Line Stanza
Double Chant Royal
Double Dactyl
Double Five
Double Glose
Double Refrain Ballade
Double Refrain Ballade Supreme
Double Refrain Chant Royal
Double Refrain Kyrielle
Double Sonnet
Double Tetractys
Dryden's Roundelay
Dunadh
Echo Verse
Eclogue
Eclogue Debat
Edda Measures
Ekphrastic
Elegiac Couplets
Elegiacs
Elegy
Elemental ode
Enclosed Tercet
Enclosed Triplet
Encomium
English Heroic Line
English Madrigal
English Ode
English Quintet
Englyn Cyrch
Englyn Lleddfbroest
Englyn Milwr
Englyn Penfyr
Englyn Proest Dalgron
Englyn Proest Gadwynog
Englyn Unodl Crwca
Englyn Unodl Union
Enjambment
Envelope Quintet
Envelope Sonnet
Envelope Stanza
Envelope Verse
Envoi
Envoy
Epic
Epicedium
Epigram
Epistle
Epithalmion
Epithalmium
Epyllion
Etheree
Evensong
Exemplum
Exquisite Corpse
Fable
Fabliau
Faceted Diamond
Flyting
Form Redoubled
Fornyrðislag
Found Poem
Fourteeners
Free Verse
French Heroic Line
French Rhymed Sestina
French Sonnet
Genethliacum
Georgic
Georgics
Ghazal
Glose
Gwawdodyn Hir
Gwawdodyns
Haikai no Renga
Haiku
Heroic Couplets
Heroic Octave
Heroic Rispetto
Heroic Sestet
Heroic Sonnet
Heroic Stanza
Hexaduad
Hir a Thoddaid
Homostrophic Ode
Horation Ode
Hudibrastics
Huitain
Hymnal Octave
Hymnal Stanza
Iamb
Iambic Pentameter
In Memorium Stanza
Incantation
Infinite Gloss
Interlocking Rubaiyat
Inverted Hexaduad
Irregular Ode
Italian Madrigal
Italian Octave
Italian Quatrain
Italian Sestet
Italian Sonnet
Johnn
Keatsian Ode
Kyrielle
Kyrielle Dialog
Kyrielle Hymn
Lai
Lai Nouveau
Lament
Lamentation
Lay
Left-Handed Poems
Light Verse
Limerick
Lira
Litany
Little Willie
Liturgics
Long Hymnal Octave
Long Hymnal Stanza
Long Measure
Long Octave
Luc Bat
Lyric
Macaronic Verse
Mad Calf
Mad Cow
Mad Song Stanza
Madrigal
Magali Shairi
Metaphor
Metrical Romance
Miku
Mirror Image
Monks Tale Stanza
Monody
Monotetra
Morningsong
Mote
Musaddas
Napoleonic Sonnet
Narrative
Nashers
Newman Sestina
Nightsong
Nonce
Nonet
Nonsense Verse
Nursery Rhyme
Obsequy
Ocarina
Octave
Ode
Old Story Measure
Omar Khayyam Quatrain
Open Verse
Ottava Rima
Pæon
Palinode
Pangyric
Pantoum
Pastoral
Pathya Vat
Pensee
Petrarchan Sonnet
Phyrric
Pindaric Ode
Pleiades
Pleiadic
Podic Verse
Poulter's Measure
Prayer
Pregunta
Primer Couplet
Prose
Prose Poems
Prothalamion
Prothalamium
Pushkin Sonnet
Qasida
Quantitative Verse
Quartina
Quatern
Quaternion
Quatorzain
Quatrains
Quintet
Quintet II
Quintilla
Quintina
Redondilla
Redondilla Sonnet
Renga
Renga Chain
Retourne
Reveille
Reverse Abecedarium
Reverse English Sonnet
Reverse Habbie
Rhopalics
Rhupunt
Rhyme Royal
Rhymed Double Sestina
Rictameter
Riddle
Rimas Dissolutas
Rime Coulée
Rispetto
Romantic stanza
Rondeau
Rondeau Prime
Rondeau Redoublé
Rondeau Redoubled
Rondel
Rondel Prime
Rondel Supreme
Rondelet
Rondine
Ronsardian Ode
Roundel
Roundelay
Rubai
Rubaiyat
Rubaiyat Stanza
Rustavelian Quatrain
Ruthless Rhyme
Sapphic Stanza
Sapphics
Sardine
Satire
Scottish Stanza
Scupham sonnet
Scupham Stanza
Sedoka
Seicinque
Senryu
Sept
Septet
Septet II
Serenade
Serpentine Verses
Serventesio
Sestet
Sestina
Sextain
Sextilla
Shairi
Shakespearean Sonnet
Sheshire
Short Couplet
Short Heroic Sestet
Short Hymnal Octave
Short Hymnal Stanza
Short Measure
Short Octave
Short Particular Measure
Short Rondel
Short Sestet
Short-Ended Englyn
Sicilian Octave
Sicilian Quatrain
Sicilian Quintet
Sicilian Septet
Sicilian Sestet
Sicilian Sonnet
Sicilian Tercet
Sicilian Triplet
Sidney's Double Sestina
Sijo
Simile
Sirvente
Skeltonics
Soft-Songed Tercet
Soft-Songed Triplet
Soldiers Englyn
Soliloquy
Somonka
Song Measure
Song That Luc Bat
Song That Luc Bat Sonnet
Sonnet
Sonnet (Other)
Sonnet of Sonnets
Sonnet Redoubled
Sonondilla
Speech Measure
Spenserian Quintilla
Spenserian Sonnet
Spenserian Stanza
Split Couplet
Split Sestet
Spondee
Standard Habbie
Stave
Strambotto (Sicilian)
Strambotto (Tuscan)
Stretched Sonnet
Swinburne's Double Sestina
Swinburne's Rhymed Sestina
Syllabic Verse
Tanka
Tawddgyrch Cadwynog
Teddy Poem
Telestich
Tercet
Terza Rima
Terza Rima Sonnet
Terzanelle
Tetractys
Tetrastich
Than-Bauk
Than-Bauk Poem
Threnody
Top Glose
Tragedy
Trenta-Sei
Triad
Trine
Trio
Triolet
Triplet
Tritrina
Triumphal Ode
Triversan
Triversan Stanza
Trochee
Tumbling Verse
Tyburn
Venus and Adonis Stanza
Villancico
Villancico II
Villanelle
Visual Poetry
Waka
Word List
Wordsworths Sonnet
Yeats Octave
Zéjel
Zahal
To contact us, e-mail
thegnosticpoet@poetrybase.info
.
Copyright © 2001-2015 by
Charles L. Weatherford
. All rights reserved.