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Poem Forms without Examples

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Examples But With Guidelines
Abecedarian
Ae Freslighe
Alliteration Color Poem
Anglo-Saxon Verse
Ballade
Barzeletta
Bev-A-Lyn Rhyme
Bio Poem
Blind Rhyme
Blues Stanza
Bob and Wheel
Bout-Rimes
Burtonelle
Calendar Poem
Cantar
Chant Royale
Cento
Copla de Arte Mayor
Cowboy
Crambo
Christina’s View
Cubist Poem
Diamente
Domino Rhyme
Double Ballade with Eight-line Stanza
Echo Verse
English Ode
English/Shakespearean Sonnet
Epigram/Epigraph
Fantasy
Fourteener
Glawn
Glosa or Glose
Harrisham Rhyme
Hike-U
Hip-Hop Lyrics
Hoops
Horoscrope Poem
I AM
Jeu-parti
Jingles
Joseph and Christina
Kennings
Little Willie
Luc Bat
Macaronic
Mad Song Stanza Masnavi
Meter Review
Miniature
Mneumonic Poems
Nashers
Nestorian Sonnet
Nonce Variations
Number Poems
Octain-Prater
Omar Khayyam Stanza
Onegin Stanza
One Word Poems
Oriental Imports
      Eye-Ku
      Renbun
      Rengay
      Renkay
      Renrepeat
      Tan-Renga
      Tan-Renga-Senyu
Orvillette
Pangram
Parallelismus Membrorum
Parts of Speech Poem
Pass Rhyme
Patricia’s Harmony
Puente
Qasida
Quincouplet
Rannaicheacht Gharid
Rengay
Retourne
Rhyme Game
Rhyme Incorporated
Rime Couee
Rock and Rap
Rondeau Redouble
Rosette
Rothko
Tenzone
Than-Bauk
The Pictorial
Three- Part Poem
Rime Royal
Scatter Poem or Word Salad
Sesta Rima
Sestina
      Bina
      Double
      Newman
      Other
      Prose
      Quartina
      Septina
      Tritrina
Shairi
Skeltonic
Sonnet
      Asian
      Balanced
      Beymorlin
      Californian
      Caudate
      Couplet
      Crown
      Curtal
      Glorionic
      Harrisham
      Lentino
      Mason
      Meredith
      Mirror-Image
      O’Connorian
      Sandwich
      Syllable Smithian
      Petrarchan
      Pollock
      Spenserian
      Scrupham
      Wordsworth
Spenserian Stanza
Star of David
String Poem
Telestich
Triname Acrostic
Triversen
Tuanortsa
Villancico
Virelai
Virelai Nouveau
Weathergrams
Welsh Patterns
      Awdl Gywdd
      Clogynach
      Cywydd Deuair Hryrion
      Cywydd Deuair Fyrion
      Cyhydedd Naw Ban
      Cyhydedd Hir
      Englyn Proest Dalgron
      Englyn Propst
      Gadwynnog
      Englyn Penfyr
      Englyn Unglyn Crwca
      Englyn Undol Union
      Gwawdodyns
      Gwawdodyn Hir
      Tawddgych Cadwynog
      Toddaid
Word Poem
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Basic Forms: Multipurpose and
Multipatterned Forms Numerically
Couplets
Triplets
Quatrains
Quintets
Sestets
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-five
Twenty-eight
Thirty
Thirty-Five
Thirty-nine
Forty-eight
Sixty
Ninety-eight
One Hundred
Two Hundred and Ten