Forms of Poetry: This is a comprehensive resource of poetic forms. We include examples of different types of poetry.
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Letter:
A
Definition
Poetry in which every word begins with a successive letter of the alphabet. The first word begins with A, the
second with B, etc.
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A poem that has 5 lines that create a mood, picture, or feeling.Lines 1 through 4 are made up of words, phrases or clauses - and the first word of each line is in alphabetical order from the first word. Line 5 is one sentence, beginning with any letter.
Example
A better cat doesn't exist, four gentle hearts insist. Juggling kittens, leaping, mewing, now overturning pillows--quietly rush, sustain terror--understand: Vitality will explode yawning zzz's!
by LaVerna B. Johnson
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Definition
Poetry that certain letters, usually the first in each line form a word or message when read in a sequence.
Example
Here is an example in English, an Edgar Allan Poe poem titled simply An Acrostic:
- Elizabeth it is in vain you say
- "Love not" — thou sayest it in so sweet a way:
- In vain those words from thee or L.E.L.
- Zantippe's talents had enforced so well:
- Ah! if that language from thy heart arise,
- Breath it less gently forth — and veil thine eyes.
- Endymion, recollect, when Luna tried
- To cure his love — was cured of all beside —
- His follie — pride — and passion — for he died.
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Definition
Alliterations are sentences or phrases that contain words that repeat the same beginning consonant sounds. The initial sounds of a word, beginning either with a consonant or a vowel, are repeated in close succession.
Example
Dogs Destroy Dinosaurs
Athena and Apollo
Nate never knows
People who pen poetry
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