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Poetry Definition

Poetry is a careful, inventive, or creative consideration of words written in order to convey some thought as a literary composition. Usually, but not always, the words written are designed to evoke emotion. Poetry can manifest itself as a two-word phrase or a one thousand-page book.

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Poetry by Form

ABC	Abecedarian
Acrostic	Alliteration
Ballad	Ballade
Bio	Blank verse
Burlesque	Canzone
Carpe Diem	Chant Royal
Chastushka	Choka
Cinqku	Cinquain
Classicism	Clerihew
Concrete	Couplet
Cowboy	Crown of Sonnets
Crystalline	Curtal Sonnet
Diamante	Didactic
Diminished Hexaverse	Dizain
Dodoitsu	Double Dactyl
Dramatic monologue	Dramatic Verse (Verse Drama)
Ekphrasis (Ecphrasis)	Elegy
Enclosed Rhyme	Englyn
Epic	Epigram
Epitaph	Epithalamium
Epulaeryu	Epyllion
Etheree	Fibonacci
Footle	Free verse (vers libre)
Ghazal	Grook
Haibun	Haiku
Hamd	Heroic Couplets
Hybronnet	I do not know?
Iambic Pentameter	Idyll (Idyl)
Imagism	Italian Sonnet
Kimo	Kwansaba
Kyrielle	Lanterne
Lay	Light Poetry
Limerick	List
Lyric	Madah
Manqabat	Marsiya
Masnavi	McWhirtle
Monoku	Monorhyme
Munaajaat	Musaddas
Naat	Name
Narrative	Nazm
Ninette	Nonet
Ode	Ottava rima
Pantoum	Parallelismus Membrorum
Pastoral	Personification
Prose	Prose Poetry
Qasida	Qawwali
Quatern	Quatorzain
Quatrain	Questionku
Quintain (English)	Quintain (Sicilian)
Quintella	Rengay
Rhyme	Rhyme royal
Rictameter	Rispetto
Romanticism	Rondeau
Rondeau Redouble	Ruba'i
Rubaiyat	Salaam
Sapphic stanza	Sedoka
Seharaa	Senryu
Sestina	Shape
Sijo	Sonnet
Suzette Prime	Tail-rhyme
Tanka	Tazkira
Terza Rima	Terzanelle
Tetractys	Than-Bauk
Triolet	Tyburn
Vaasokht	Verse
Villanelle

Poetry on/about

absence	abuse
addiction	adventure
africa	age
allah	allegory
america	analogy
angel	anger
angst	animal
anniversary	april
art	august
autumn	baby
baptism	baseball
basketball	beach
beautiful	beauty
bereavement	best friend
betrayal	bible
bird	birth
birthday	black african american
blue	boat
body	books
boyfriend	bridal shower
brother	bullying
business	butterfly
cancer	candy
car	care
career	caregiving
cat	celebration
celebrity	change
character	child
childhood	children
chocolate	christian
christmas	city
class	clothes
color	community
computer	conflict
confusion	corruption
courage	cousin
cowboy	crazy
creation	cry
culture	dad
dance	dark
daughter	day
death	death of a friend
december	dedication
depression	desire
devotion	discrimination
dog	dream
drink	earth
earth day	easter
education	emo
emotions	england
environment	epic
eulogy	eve
evil	fairy
faith	family
fantasy	farewell
farm	father
father daughter	fathers day
fear	february
feelings	film
fire	first love
fish	fishing
flower	flying
food	football
for children	for her
for him	for kids
forgiveness	freedom
friend	friendship
fruit	fun
funeral	funny
future	games
garden	gender
giggle	girl
girlfriend	giving
god	golf
goodbye	graduation
grandchild	granddaughter
grandfather	grandmother
grandparents	grandson
grave	green
grief	growing up
growth	hair
halloween	happiness
happy	hate
health	heart
heartbroken	heaven
hero	high school
hindi	hip hop
history	hockey
holiday	holocaust
home	homework
hope	horror
horse	house
how i feel	howl
humor	humorous
husband	i love you
identity	image
imagination	immigration
innocence	insect
inspiration	inspirational
international	internet
introspection	ireland
irony	january
jealousy	jesus
jobs	journey
joy	judgement
july	june
kindergarten	kiss
language	leaving
life	light
little sister	london
loneliness	lonely
longing	loss
lost	lost love
love	lust
lyric	magic
march	marriage
may	me
memorial day	memory
men	mentor
metaphor	middle school
miracle	mirror
miss you	missing
missing you	mom
money	moon
morning	mother
mother daughter	mothers day
mountains	moving on
murder	muse
music	my child
my children	mystery
mythology	name
native american	natural disasters
nature	neice
new year	new york
nice	night
nostalgia	november
ocean	october
old	pain
paradise	parents
paris	parody
passion	patriotic
peace	people
pets	philosophy
places	poems
poetess	poetry
poets	political
pollution	poverty
power	prayer
pride	psychological
race	racism
rain	rainbow
rap	recovery from
red	relationship
religion	religious
remember	retirement
rights	river
romance	romantic
rose	sad
sad love	satire
school	science
science fiction	sea
seasons	self
senses	sensual
september	sexy
sick	silly
silver	simile
simple	sin
sister	sky
slam	slavery
sleep	smile
snow	soccer
social	society
soldier	son
song	sorrow
sorry	sound
space	spiritual
spoken word	sports
spring	star
stars	storm
strength	stress
student	success
suicide	summer
sun	sweet
symbolism	sympathy
teacher	technology
teen	teenage
thank you	thanks
thanksgiving	tiger
time	today
together	travel
tree	tribute
trust	truth
uplifting	urban
urdu	usa
vacation	valentines day
vanity	veterans day
violence	visionary
voice	voyage
war	water
weather	wedding
wife	wind
wine	winter
wisdom	woman
women	words
work	world
write	writing
yellow	youth

Famous Poetry

adventure	allah
angel	angst
animal	anniversary
april	art
autumn	baby
ballad	baptism
baseball	beach
beautiful	beauty
birthday	boyfriend
brother	business
butterfly	cat
child	childhood
christian	christmas
confusion	courage
dad	dance
dark	daughter
death	dedication
depression	devotion
dog	dream
easter	education
faith	family
farewell	father
fear	flower
food	football
forgiveness	freedom
friendship	funeral
funny	girl
girlfriend	god
goodbye	graduation
grandfather	grandmother
grief	haiku
halloween	happiness
happy	hate
health	heaven
history	hockey
holiday	holocaust
home	hope
horse	humorous
husband	imagination
inspiration	inspirational
introspection	january
jesus	journey
life	lonely
loss	lost
love	lyric
marriage	memory
metaphor	miracle
mom	moon
mother	music
mystery	name
nature	nostalgia
ocean	pain
passion	patriotic
peace	people
pets	philosophy
places	political
prayer	rain
relationship	religion
religious	retirement
romance	romantic
rose	sad
school	science
sea	seasons
sister	snow
soldier	son
song	sonnet
sorrow	sorry
spiritual	sport
spring	star
stress	success
suicide	summer
sympathy	teacher
teen	thank you
thanksgiving	time
tree	tribute
uplifting	war
water	wedding
wife	winter
woman	women
work	write