Poetic Forms and Terms by Origin

American

Bagarthach Verses

Blues Sonnet

Blues Stanza

Côte

Cinquain

Curtal Quatrain

Deten

Diamante

Dipodic Quatrain

Double Chant Royal

Double Refrain Ballade Supreme

Double Refrain Chant Royal

Etheree

Faceted Diamond

Infinite Gloss

Johnn

Kyrielle Dialog

Kyrielle Hymn

Left-Handed Poems

Mad Calf

Mad Cow

Nashers

Quintina

Reverse Habbie

Sardine

Short Sestet

Spenserian Quintilla

Split Sestet

Teddy Poem

Top Glose

Trenta-Sei

Triversan

Triversan Stanza

American (Jewish)

Sheshire

Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxon Accentual Verse

Arabic

Musaddas

Qasida

Belarus

Romantic stanza

British/American

Double Dactyl

Burmese

Than-Bauk

Burmese/English

Than-Bauk Poem

Cambodian

Pathya Vat

Celtic

Dunadh

Chilean

Elemental Ode

Earth

Syllabic Verse

England

Bina

Bowlesian Sonnet

Crambo

Decrina

Domino Rhyme

Newman Sestina

Ocarina

Podic Verse

Quartina

Ruthless Rhyme

Scupham sonnet

Septet II

Sonnet of Sonnets

English

Blank Verse

Bob and Wheel

Brace Octave

Cameo

Clerihew

Cowleyan Ode

Curtal Sonnet

Dryden's Roundelay

English Heroic Line

English Madrigal

English Quintet

Hexaduad

Inverted Hexaduad

Keatsian Ode

Limerick

Mad Song Stanza

Pensee

Poulter's Measure

Quaternion

Reverse English Sonnet

Rhymed Double Sestina

Roundel

Sept

Shakespearean Sonnet

Sidney's Double Sestina

Skeltonics

Spenserian Sonnet

Spenserian Stanza

Swinburne's Double Sestina

Swinburne's Rhymed Sestina

Tumbling Verse

Wordsworth’s Sonnet

French

Alexandrine

Alternating Sonnet

Ballade

Ballade Royale

Ballade Supreme

Blason

Bouts-Rimés

Bref Double

Calligramme

Chanso

Chant Royal

Chante-Fable

Descort

Dizain

Double Ballade

Double Ballade Supreme

Double Refrain Ballade

Double Refrain Kyrielle

Envoy

French Heroic Line

French Rhymed Sestina

French Sonnet

Huitain

Lai

Lai Nouveau

Quatern

Quatorzain

Retourne

Rimas Dissolutas

Rime Coulée

Rondeau

Rondeau Prime

Rondeau Redoubled

Rondel

Rondel Supreme

Rondelet

Ronsardian Ode

Short Rondel

Trine

Triolet

Villanelle

French/Italian

Terzanelle

French/Occitan

Sestina

Georgian

Dabali Shairi

Magali Shairi

Shairi

Greek

Adonics

Alcaics

Amphibrach

Anacreontic Ode

Anapest

Choriambics

Classical Hendecasyllable

Classical Heroic Line

Dactyl

Elegiacs

Epyllion

Horation Ode

Ode

Pindaric Ode

Sapphic Stanza

Sapphics

Spondee

Greek/Italian

Palinode

Indo-European/Germanic

Accentual Verse

Indo-European/Sanskrit/Greek

Quantitative Verse

Irish

Ae Freislighe

Casbairdne

Deachnadh Mor

Deibhidhe

Triad

Yeats Octave

Italian

Barzelletta

Canzone

Canzone II

Capitolo

Caudate Sonnet

Heroic Rispetto

Italian Madrigal

Italian Octave

Italian Quatrain

Italian Sestet

Macaronic Verse

Ottava Rima

Petrarchan Sonnet

Rispetto

Strambotto (Tuscan)

Terza Rima

Terza Rima Sonnet

Japanese

Abbreviated Haiku I

Abbreviated Haiku II

Choka

Dodoitsu

Haikai no Renga

Haiku

Renga

Renga Chain

Sedoka

Senryu

Somonka

Tanka

Waka

Korean

Sijo

Latin

Accentual-Syllabic Verse

Magyar

Balassi stanza

Malayan

Pantoum

Norse

Edda Measures

Old Story Measure

Song Measure

Speech Measure

Norwegian

Word List

Occitan

Balada

Dansa

Persian

Ghazal

Interlocking Rubaiyat

Rubai

Rubaiyat

Scots/English

Rhyme Royal

Scottish

Standard Habbie

Sicily

Sicilian Octave

Sicilian Quatrain

Sicilian Quintet

Sicilian Septet

Sicilian Sestet

Sicilian Sonnet

Sicilian Tercet

Sicilian Triplet

Strambotto (Sicilian)

Spanish

Cancione

Lira

Pregunta

Quintilla

Redondilla

Sextilla

Villancico

Villancico II

Zéjel

Spanish/Portuguese

Double Glose

Glose

Vietnamese

Luc Bat

Song That Luc Bat

Vietnamese/English

Song That Luc Bat Sonnet

Welsh

Awdl gywydd

Byr A Thoddaid

Clogyrnach

Cyhydedd Fer

Cyhydedd Hir

Cyhydedd Naw Ban

Cyrch a Chwta

Cywydd deuair fyrion

Cywydd deuair hirion

Cywydd Llosgyrnog

Englyn Cyrch

Englyn Lleddfbroest

Englyn Milwr

Englyn Penfyr

Englyn Proest Dalgron

Englyn Proest Gadwynog

Englyn Unodl Crwca

Englyn Unodl Union

Gwawdodyn Hir

Gwawdodyns

Hir a Thoddaid

Rhupunt

Tawddgyrch Cadwynog