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| Ballad | A poem that tells a narrative story. Similar to a folk tale or legend. Has a repeated refrain. Often set to music. |
| Blank Verse | Has the rhythm of spoken language and is unrhymed |
| Free Verse | Irregular poem form that has no rhythm or rhyme pattern |
| Cinquain | A poem that has five (cinque means five in Italian) lines. Each line has a specific form and job: |
| 1 word title | 2 words describing the title |
| Quatrain | A stanza or poem that has four lines and a predictable rhyme pattern. |
| Sonnet | A lyric poem with 14 lines and a predictable rhyme pattern |
| Villanelle | a 19 line poem with a predictable rhyme pattern |
| Haiku | A Japanese style of poetry that is traditionally about nature. It has three unrhymed lines that follow this pattern: 5 syllables |
| Couplet | a poem form with two rhyming lines (a couple). It can be part of a villanelle or sonnet. |
| Concrete Poem | Also known as shape poetry. The visual shape of the poem is determined by the topic. |
| Acrostic | A form of poetry where a word is spelled vertically to start |
