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| ballad | a poem with a very musical rhyme and rhythm pattern that usually tells about a single event dealong with love, tragedy, or heroism |
| narrative poetry | poetry that tells a story |
| epic | a kind of narrative poetry that tells a long story about a hero, often to illustrate the ideals of the culture which it is written |
| lyric poetry | poetry that is short and musical and that deals with personal issues |
| sonnet | a poem of 14 lines, usually with 10 syllables each, and various complicated rhyme schemes |
| free verse | poetry with no set rhyme or rhythm pattern |
| limerick | a comical poem with first, second, and fifth lines fhyming and shorter third and fourth lines rhyming, and usually ends with a suprise twist |
| haiku | Japanese poetry consisting of 3 lines with the number of syllables alternating in a pattern of 5-7-5; describes poet's feeling on nature. |
| concrete poem | poem with words arranges to create an image of what the poem is about. |
