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A humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba
Limerick
A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the adventures of heroic figures or the history of a nation
Epic
A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long(or stressed) syllable
Lamb
Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially at the ends of lines of poetry
Rhyme
A basic structural component of a poem
Line
A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next
Internal Rhyme
In poetry, the repetition of the sound near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
Assonance
Two rhyming words that are consecutive or very close together in a phrase or line
Close rhyme
A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas
Ballad
A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five
Haiku
A poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words
Acrostic
A person who write poems
Poet
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse
Stanza
Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme
Verse
Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter
Blank Verse
A group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
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