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Acrostic & Shadow

  • About.com - How to Write or Recognize an Acrostic Verse
  • Caroline Gill - Brief Acrostic Haiku
  • Emory - Handbook
  • Jack Collom - Acrostic
  • Lewis Carroll's Acrostic
  • Pacific Children's Literature - Island Poetry
  • Shadow Poetry - Acrostic & Shadow Verse
  • William Anderson Ellis - Two Poems by Soldier & Teacher
  • Virtual Poetry Workshop - Hoa Nguyen - Fun with Acrostics

    • Alliterative & Accentual

  • About.com - How to Write or Recognize Alliterative Verse
  • Betsy Norris - Alliteration
  • Dana Gioia - Accentual Verse
  • e-Text - U of Virginia - The Alliterative Morte Arthure
  • e-Text - U of Virginia - Piers Plowman - William Langland
  • e-Text - U of Virginia - Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
  • Jonathan A. Glenn - The Alliterative Revival: Bibliography
  • Kalliope - Other Echoes
  • Mary K. Savelli - Old English Metrics
  • Project Gutenberg - Beowulf
  • TEAMS Texts - Stanzaic Morte Arthur & Alliterative Morte Arthure

    • Ballad

  • Ballads & Other Poems Criticism by E. A. Poe (1850)
  • Dalhousie University & The eText Center - Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary Project
  • Lynch - Ballad
  • Poets' Corner - Ancient Poems, Ballads & Songs
  • Oxford - Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
  • Richard Bear, Renascence Editions - Lyrical Ballads
  • Shadow Poetry - Ballad
  • Tangerine - Ballads Explained
  • Ted Nellen - Cybereng - Ballad
  • The UVic Writer's Guide - Ballad

    • Beats

  • Allen Ginsberg - A Supermarket in California
  • Left Coast Art Magazine - Women of the Beats
  • Literary Kicks

    • Blank Verse

  • Cindy Nichols - North Dakota State Univ - Examples of Blank Verse
  • Eliot, T. S. 1920 - The Sacred Wood
  • Firesheets - Blank Verse
  • Onlinepoetry - Blank Verse
  • Tangerine - Blank Verse Explained
  • Ted Nellen - Cybereng - Blank Verse

    • Cinquain

  • aha Poetry - Cinquain
  • Firesheets - Cinquain
  • Kalliope - Cinquains
  • Leslie Opp-Beckman, PIZZAZ - Cinquaine
  • Shadow Poetry - Cinquain
  • Writer's Resource Center - Poetry in Forms - Cinquain

    • Comic

  • Frank Murphy, Conf. On Contemp. Poetry - Comic Poetry

    • Clerihew

  • Henry Taylor - Brief Candles
  • Shadow Poetry - Clerihew

    Concrete/Shape Poetry

  • Brooke Davis - Dimensional Poetry Essay
  • Kalliope - Concrete Poetry
  • Lawrence Schimel - Poetic License Essay
  • Michael P. Garofalo - Concrete Poems
  • Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry
  • Shadow Poetry - Concrete Verse
  • UBUWeb - Visual, Concrete & Sound Poetry

    Diamante

  • Roger L. Robison - Senex Caecilius - Scriptorium - GrecoRoman Diamantes
  • Shadow Poetry - Diamante

    Didactic

  • Alexander Pope - An Essay on Man in Four Epistles
  • Christos Vlamis - U of Portsmouth - Hesiod
  • James Russell Lowe - The Origins of Didactic Poetry
  • The Online Medieval Classical Library - Hesiod's Works and Days
  • Shadow Poetry - Didactic

    Double-Dactyl

  • Alex Chafee - Double-Dactyls
  • Robert Pirtle - Non-Limericks for Special Occasions
  • Roger L. Robison - Senex Caecilius - Scriptorium - GrecoRoman Double-Dactyls
  • Roger L. Robison - Senex Caecilius - The Year in Double-Dactyls

    Dramatic

  • Tangerine - Dramatic Monologues Explained
  • Ted Nellen - Cybereng - Dramatic
  • The UVic Writer's Guide - Dramatic Monologue
  • The Victorian Web - Dramatic Monologue

    • Epigram

  • Shadow Poetry - Epigram
  • The UVic Writer's Guide - Epigram
  • Ted Nellen - Cybereng - Epigram
  • The UVic Writer's Guide - Epigram

    • Epistle

  • Alan Richardson - Thomas Moore - Epistle of Condolence - Slave-Lord to a Cotton-Lord
  • A Celebration of Women Writers - Epistle To William Wilberforce
  • EnglishHistory - Byron's Epistle to Augusta
  • Rachel Firth - A Reunion Epistle
  • RCHS Reader - Keats's Epistle to JH Reynolds
  • Writer's Resource Center - Poetry In Forms - Epistle

    • Epitaph

  • Academy of American Poets - W.H. Auden - Epitaph for a Tyrant
  • Ben Jonson's Epitaph for Thomas Nashe
  • Countee Cullen - An Epitaph
  • David Alpaugh - Electronic Epitaph
  • Joel GAzis-SAx - The Epitaph Browser
  • Nelson Hilton - Jonathan Swift's Epitaph
  • Pete Landry - Blupete Pick - Thomas Gray's The Epitaph
  • Shadow Poetry - Epitaph
  • Sid Harrison - Kohima Battle Epitaph

    Free Verse

  • Marjorie Perloff - After Free Verse - The New Non-linear Poetries
  • Onlinepoetry - Free Verse
  • Shadow Poetry - Free Verse
  • Tangerine - Free Verse Explained
  • Ted Nellen - Cybereng - Free Verse

    • Ghazal (Turkish, Persian)

  • ahaPoetry - Ghazal
  • Kalliope - Ghazals

    • Haiku (Japanese)

  • The Albuquerque Poet - Flowing Haiku
  • Aufdenspring & Mings-Lamar - Haiku in U.S. History
  • B. Wu, Cyber High School, Writing Haiku - Lesson
  • Elizabeth St. Jacques - Poetry In The Light
  • Firesheets - Haiku
  • Haiku for People!
  • Jane Reichhold - Everything About Haiku
  • Roger L. Robison - Senex Caecilius - Scriptorium - GrecoRoman Haiku
  • Shadow Poetry - Haiku
  • The Shiki Internet Haiku Salon
  • Tangerine - Haiku Explained

    • Limericks

  • Cyber High School - Lear, Limericks, & Literature - Lesson
  • Edward Lear
  • Firesheets - Limericks
  • Kalliope - Limericks
  • The SETI League - Winning Limericks
  • Shadow Poetry - Limerick
  • Tangerine - Limericks Explained

    • Lunes

  • Jack Collom - Lunes
  • Kalliope - The Call of the Lune

    Lyric - Dramatic Lyrical, Elegy, Ode

  • B. Wu, Cyber High School - Writing an Elegy _ Lesson
  • B. Wu - Writing Lyric Poetry - Lesson
  • B. Wu, Cyber High School - Writing an Ode - Lesson
  • Raymond M. Koehler - Catullus - Lyrics Sung in English & Latin
  • Lynch - Elegy
  • Lynch - Ode
  • Melissa Osborne - Lyricalworks -Symbols, Myths, Dreams & Stories
  • Seamus Cooney - Thomas Gray - An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - 1750
  • Shadow Poetry - Ode
  • Tangerine - The Ode Explained
  • Ted Nellen - Cybereng - Elegy
  • Ted Nellen - Cybereng - Lyric
  • Ted Nellen - Cybereng - Ode
  • Thinkquest - Walt Whitman
  • The UVic Writer's Guide - Dramatic Lyric
  • The UVic Writer's Guide - Elegy
  • The UVic Writer's Guide - Lyric
  • The UVic Writer's Guide - Ode

    • Monody

  • The Atlantic - David Barber - The Children of Orpheus
  • Favorite Poems Project - John Milton - Lycidas
  • PlanetZine - David Hunter Sutherland - A Monody on Mars
  • Robert Burns - Monody on a Lady(Maria Riddell) Famed for Her Caprice
  • Shadow Poetry - Monody

    Narrative - Epic

  • Bob Yantosca's Epic Poetry Quiz
  • B. Wu, Cyber High School - Writing Narrative Poetry - Lesson
  • Leeds University - Aristotle's Poetics
  • Lynch - Epic
  • Roger Dunkle - Classics Technology Center - Homer's Iliad
  • Sarah Becker - Mnemonic Devices in Epic Poetry
  • Shadow Poetry - Epic
  • Tangerine - Narrative Poems Explained
  • Tom Sienkewicz, Howard U - Classifications of Epic Poetry
  • The UVic Writer's Guide - Epic

    • Pantoum

  • Shadow Poetry - Pantoum

    Persona

  • Leslie Opp-Beckman, PIZZAZ! Persona

    • Prepositional

  • Roger L. Robison - Senex Caecilius - Scriptorium - Prepositional

    Renga (Japanese)

  • ahaPoetry - Renga

    • Science Fiction

  • SciFaiku by James M. Palmer
  • SciFaiku.com

    Sestina

  • Cindy Nichols - North Dakota State Univ - Sestina Form & Examples
  • NMJ Island Sestina
  • Tangerine - The Sestina Explained

    • Sijo (Korean)

  • ahaPoetry - Sijo

    Sonnet

  • B. Wu, Cyber High School - Writing a Shakespearean Sonnet - Lesson
  • Cindy Nichols - North Dakota State Univ - Sonnet Forms & Examples
  • Firesheets - Italian Sonnets
  • Richard Bear, Renascence Editions - Sonnets by Spenser
  • Sonnets Central
  • Tangerine - Sonnets Explained
  • Ted Nellen - Cybereng - Sonnet
  • The UVic Writer's Guide - Sonnet

    • Tanka (Japanese)

  • ahaPoetry - Tanka
  • Richard Bear - Stony Run - Tanka - 100 poems

    • Terza Rima (Italian)

  • Firesheets - Terza Rima
  • Writer's Resource Center - Poetry In Forms - Tercet & Triad

    • Villanelle

  • Cindy Nichols - North Dakota State Univ - Villanelle Form & Examples
  • Firesheets - Villanelles
  • Tangerine - The Villanelle Explained

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