Outline of poetry



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Poetry is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities, in addition to, or instead of, its apparent meaning.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to poetry.

Common poetic forms

 * Verse forms
 * Blank verse
 * Heroic couplets
 * Ode –
 * Rondeau
 * Sonnet –
 * Spenserian stanzas
 * Triolet
 * Villanelle –
 * Stanzas


 * Other
 * Ghazal –
 * Haiku –
 * Jintishi –
 * Tanka –

Periods, styles and movements

 * Automatic poetry –
 * Beat poetry –
 * Black Mountain –
 * Chanson de geste –
 * Classical Chinese poetry –
 * Concrete poetry –
 * Confederation Poets –
 * Cowboy poetry –
 * Digital poetry –
 * Ecopoetry –
 * Epitaph –
 * Erasure poetry –
 * Fable –
 * Flarf –
 * Found poetry –
 * Haptic Poetry –
 * Imagism –
 * Libel –
 * Limerick poetry –
 * Lyric poetry –
 * Metaphysical poetry –
 * Medieval poetry –
 * Minnesinger –
 * Montreal Group –
 * The Movement –
 * Narrative poetry –
 * Objectivist poetry –
 * Odes and Elegies –
 * Parnassian –
 * Pastoral –
 * Performance poetry –
 * Romanticism –
 * San Francisco Renaissance –
 * Slam Poetry –
 * The Song Fishermen –
 * Sound poetry –
 * Symbolism –
 * Troubadour –
 * TrouvÃ¨re –
 * Visual poetry –

Elements of verse

 * Accents –
 * Couplets –
 * Elision –
 * Feet –
 * Intonation –
 * Line
 * Meter –
 * Moras –
 * Prosody –
 * Rhythm –
 * Scansion –
 * Stanzas –
 * Syllables –
 * Caesura –

Methods of creating rhythm

 * See also The basic elements of poetry, Parallelism, inflection, intonation, poetry explication

Scanning meter
The most common metrical feet are:
 * spondee – two stressed syllables together
 * iamb – unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
 * trochee – one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
 * dactyl – one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
 * anapest – two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable

The number of metrical feet in a line are described in Greek terminology as follows:


 * dimeter – two feet
 * trimeter – three feet
 * tetrameter – four feet
 * pentameter – five feet
 * hexameter – six feet
 * heptameter – seven feet
 * octameter – eight feet

Common metrical patterns

 * Iambic pentameter –
 * Example: Paradise Lost, by John Milton
 * Dactylic hexameter –
 * Examples:
 * Iliad, by Homer
 * The Metamorphoses, by Ovid
 * Iambic tetrameter –
 * Examples:
 * To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell
 * Eugene Onegin, by Aleksandr Pushkin
 * Trochaic octameter –
 * Example: The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
 * Anapestic tetrameter –
 * Examples:
 * The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll
 * Don Juan, by Lord Byron
 * Alexandrine – also known as iambic hexameter.
 * Example: PhÃ¨dre, by Jean Racine

Rhyme, alliteration and assonance

 * Alliteration –
 * Alliterative verse –
 * Assonance –
 * Consonance –
 * Internal rhyme –
 * Rhyme –

Rhyming schemes

 * Couplet
 * Triplet
 * Chant royal –
 * Ottava rima –
 * Terza rima
 * Rubaiyat –

Stanzas and verse paragraphs

 * 2-line stanza: couplet or distich
 * 3-line stanza: triplet or tercet
 * 4-line stanza: quatrain
 * 5-line stanza: quintain or cinquain)
 * 6-line stanza: sestet
 * 8-line stanza: octet
 * 9-line stanza: nonet
 * verse paragraph

Famous poets and their poems

 * Anna Akhmatova –
 * Maya Angelou –
 * Ludovico Ariosto –
 * W.H. Auden –
 * Li Bai (æŽç™½) –
 * Basho (èŠ­è•‰æ¾å°¾ï¼‰ –
 * William Blake –
 * Geoffrey Chaucer –
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge –
 * Dante –
 * Divine Comedy –
 * Kamala Das –
 * Emily Dickinson –
 * John Donne –
 * Rita Dove –
 * John Dryden –
 * T.S. Eliot –
 * Ferdowsi –
 * Shahnameh –
 * Robert Frost –
 * Homer –
 * Iliad –
 * Odyssey –
 * Gerard Manley Hopkins –
 * Horace –
 * A.E. Housman –
 * Omar Kayyam –
 * John Keats –
 * Jan Kochanowski –
 * Ignacy Krasicki –
 * Fables and Parables –
 * Mikhail Lermontov (ÐœÐ¸Ñ…Ð°Ð¸ÌÐ» Ð®ÌÑ€ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð›ÐµÌÑ€Ð¼Ð¾Ð½Ñ‚Ð¾Ð²) –
 * John Milton –
 * Ovid –
 * Petrarch –
 * Sylvia Plath –
 * Lady Lazarus –
 * Edgar Allan Poe –
 * The Raven –
 * Alexander Pope –
 * Ezra Pound –
 * Alexander Pushkin (ÐÐ»ÐµÐºÑÐ°ÌÐ½Ð´Ñ€ Ð¡ÐµÑ€Ð³ÐµÌÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ ÐŸÑƒÌÑˆÐºÐ¸Ð½) –
 * Rainer Maria Rilke –
 * Arthur Rimbaud –
 * Jalal ad-Din Rumi –
 * Shel Silverstein –
 * William Shakespeare –
 * Shakespeare's sonnets –
 * Edmund Spenser –
 * Philip Sidney –
 * Tasso –
 * Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson –
 * Walt Whitman –
 * William Wordsworth –
 * Virgil –
 * William Butler Yeats –

Poetry lists

 * List of poems
 * List of poets