Villanelle

-nineteen-line poem with two

repeating rhymes and two refrains.
- The form is made up of five tercets
followed by a quatrain.
Sestina
- is a complex form that achieves its
often spectacular effects through
intricate repetition
-strict pattern of the repetition of
the initial six end-words of the first
stanza through the remaining five
six-line stanzas, culminating in a
three-line envoi
-The form is as follows, where each
numeral indicates the stanza
position and the letters represent
end-words:
1. ABCDEF
2. FAEBDC
3. CFDABE
4. ECBFAD
5. DEACFB
6. BDFECA
7. (envoi) ECA or ACE
Haiku
-three lines, where the first and last
lines have five moras, and the
middle line has seven.
-The pattern in this Japanese genre
is 5-7-5.
Free Verse
-literary device that can be defined
as poetry that is free from
limitations of regular meter or
rhythm, and does not rhyme with
fixed forms.
-the poet can give his own shape to
a poem however he or she desires.