List of poetic forms

by George Dance

A

 * Abecedarius, Hebrew, 6thBC
 * Acrostic
 * Alexandrine

B

 * Balassi stanza, Hungarian, 16th
 * Ballad stanza
 * Ballade, French, 14th
 * Balliol rhyme, English, 19th
 * Blank verse, English, 16th, verse
 * Burns stanza, Scottish, 17th, verse

C

 * Canzone, Sicilian, 13th, verse
 * Carmen figuratum
 * Caudate sonnet, Italian, 16th, verse
 * Cento, Roman, 3rd
 * Chant Royal, French, 14th, verse
 * Cinquain, American, 20th, syllabic
 * Clerihew, English, 20th
 * Common meter, verse
 * Couplet, verse
 * Curtal sonnet, English, 19th

D

 * Diamante, American, 20th, concrete
 * Double dactyl, American, 20th, verse
 * Dramatic monologue, English, 19th

E

 * Eclogue, Roman, 1stBC, verse
 * Ekphrastic poetry
 * Elegaic couplet, Ancient Greek, 7thBC, verse
 * Elegy
 * Englyn. Welsh
 * Epic poetry
 * Epigram, Roman, 1st

F

 * Flarf, American, 20th

G

 * Ghazal, Arabic, 6th
 * Glosa, Spanish, 14th
 * Gogyoka, Japanese, 20th

H

 * Standard Habbie
 * Haiku
 * Heroic couplet
 * Hokku

I

 * Idyll

=J=
 * Jintishi

K

 * Kyrielle

L

 * Lai
 * Limerick
 * Lune

M

 * Minnesang

N

 * Nonet
 * Nonnet

O

 * Octave
 * Octet
 * Ode
 * Onegin stanza
 * Ottava rima

P

 * Pantoum
 * Pantun
 * Paradelle
 * Pastoral
 * Pastourelle
 * Pentina
 * Petrarchan sonnet
 * Poulter's Measure
 * Prose poetry

Q

 * Quatorzain
 * Quatrain
 * Quintain
 * Quinzaine

R

 * Renga
 * Renku
 * Rhyme royal
 * Rictameter
 * Rondeau
 * Rondel
 * Rondelet
 * Roundel
 * Roundelay
 * Ruba'i

S

 * Sapphic stanza, Ancient Greek,
 * Saturnian meter
 * Senryu, Japanese
 * Sestet
 * Sestina
 * Shakespearean sonnet, English, 16th, verse
 * Sicilian octave
 * Sijo, Korean, 14th
 * Sonnet, Italian, 13th, verse
 * Spenserian stanza, English, 16th, verse
 * Spenserian sonnet, English, 16th, verse
 * Spoetry
 * Stev

T

 * Tanka
 * Tercet
 * Terzanelle
 * Terza rima
 * Triolet
 * Triplet

V

 * Verse paragraph
 * Viator
 * Villancico
 * Villanelle

W

 * Waka, Japanese, 10th

Y

 * Yoik, Sami

Z

 * Zappai