The Tanaga is a type of Filipino poem, consisting of four lines with seven syllables each with the same

rhyme at the end of each line --- that is to say a 7-7-7-7 Syllabic verse, with an AABB rhyme scheme.

he Tanaga is an indigenous type of Filipino poem, that is used traditionally in the Tagalog language. ... Its
usage declined in the later half of the 20th century, but was revived through a collectivity of Filipino
artists in the 21st century. The poetic art uses four lines, each line having seven syllables only.

Vibrant reds and yellows glow

Brighter under rain and snow
But once the snow melts away
All that’s left is slushy grey

My heart beats now just for you

And you say you love me too
Did you say that to LynnGay
Whilst kissing her yesterday?

A clerihew (/ˈklɛrɪhjuː/) is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew

Bentley. The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person put in an absurd light,
or revealing something unknown or spurious about them. The rhyme scheme is AABB, and the rhymes
are often forced. The line length and metre are irregular. Bentley invented the clerihew in school and
then popularized it in books. One of his best known is this (1905):

A Clerihew poem is a witty and whimsical four-line poem, usually concerning a famous figure. Named
for their creator - Edmund Clerihew Bentley - Clerihews are a type of epigram: a verse work that is
characteristically concise and cleverly amusing.

Sir Humphrey Davy

Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.

Garfield the cat

On his rear he sat.
Eating lasagna galore
All about the decor.

"Haiku" is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. Haiku poems consist of 3 lines. The first and last lines of
a Haiku have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables. The lines rarely rhyme.

Haiku, unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables
respectively. The haiku first emerged in Japanese literature during the 17th century, as a terse reaction
to elaborate poetic traditions, though it did not become known by the name haiku until the 19th
century.
Strokes of affection
Light and tenderly expressed
Keep love’s bonds so strong.

LIMERECK-a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba,
popularized by Edward Lear.

Limerick is a comic verse, containing five anapestic (unstressed/unstressed/stressed) lines, in which the
first, second, and fifth lines are longer, rhyme together, and follow three metrical feet. The third and
fourth lines rhyme together, are shorter, and follow two metrical feet. However, sometimes it may vary,
and amphibrachic (unstressed/stressed/unstressed) form can replace anapestic. In fact, it is a bawdy,
humorous, or nonsensical verse written in the form of five anapests, with an aabba rhyme scheme.
Since it has a special structure and format, it is called fixed or closed form of poetry.

A limerick (pronounced LIM-rick) is a five-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA, lines 1,2, and 5
rhyme together, while lines 3 and 4 rhymes togther) and a reasonably strict meter (anapestic triameter
for lines 1, 2, and 5; anapestic diameter for lines 3 and 4). Limericks are almost always used for comedy,
and it’s usually pretty rude comedy at that – they deal with bodily functions, etc., and could be
considered “toilet humor.”

“There was an Old Man with a beard,

Who said, ‘It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!”

Free verse is a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of
regular meteror rhythm, and does not rhyme with fixed forms. Such poems are without rhythm and
rhyme schemes, do not follow regular rhyme scheme rules, yet still provide artistic expression. In this
way, the poet can give his own shape to a poem however he or she desires. However, it still allows poets
to use alliteration, rhyme, cadences, and rhythms to get the effects that they consider are suitable for
the piece.

Features of Free Verse

 Free verse poems have no regular meter or rhythm.

 They do not follow a proper rhyme scheme; these poems do not have any set rules.

 This type of poem is based on normal pauses and natural rhythmical phrases, as compared to
the artificial constraints of normal poetry.

 It is also called vers libre, which is a French word meaning “free verse.”

Examples of Free Verse in Literature

Example #1: A Noiseless Patient Spider (By Walt Whitman)

“A noiseless patient spider,

I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

And you O my soul where you stand,

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space…
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.”

If you are looking for free verse examples, then Walt Whitman is your guy. He is known as the father of
free verse English poetry. In this poem, only a simple metaphor is used to mesmerize readers without
employing regular rhyme scheme or rhythm. We can see normal pauses in the poem unlike the typical
limitations of metrical feet.

Example #2: Soonest Mended (By John Ashbury)

“Barely tolerated, living on the margin

In our technological society, we were always having to be rescued
On the brink of destruction, like heroines in Orlando Furioso
Before it was time to start all over again.
There would be thunder in the bushes, a rustling of coils…
The whole thing might not, in the end, be the only solution…
Came plowing down the course, just to make sure everything was O.K. …
About how to receive this latest piece of information.”

This is one of the best examples of free verse poetry. In this poem, there is no regular rhyme scheme or
rhythm. It is without poetic constraints, but has a flow that gives it a natural touch.

Example #3: Come Slowly, Eden (By Emily Dickinson)

“Come slowly, Eden

Lips unused to thee.
Bashful, sip thy jasmines,
As the fainting bee,
Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums,
Counts his nectars—alights,
And is lost in balms!”
Emily Dickinson is famous as the mother of American English free verse. This poem does not have
consistent metrical patterns, musical patterns, or rhyme. Rather, following the rhythm of natural
speech, it gives an artistic expression to the ideas it contains.

Example #4: The Garden (By Ezra Pound)

“Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall

She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
And she is dying piece-meal
of a sort of emotional anemia.

And round about there is a rabble

Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth.

In her is the end of breeding.

Her boredom is exquisite and excessive…
will commit that indiscretion.”

Ezra Pound is also renowned for writing free verse poetry. He has created this modern free verse poem
with musical quality. There are stressed and unstressed patterns, but they are created in a very clever
way. It is not following a regular rhyme scheme, but we can see alliteration in words such as “like,”
“loose,” “round rabble,” “exquisite,” and “excessive.”

Function of Free Verse

Free verse is commonly used in contemporary poetry. Some poets have taken this technique as a
freedom from rhythm and rhyme, because it changes people’s minds whimsically. Therefore, free verse
is also called vers libre.

The best thing about free verse is that poets can imagine the forms of any sound through intonations
instead of meters. Free verse gives a greater freedom for choosing words, and conveying their meanings
to the audience. Since it depends upon patterned elements like sounds, phrases, sentences, and words,
it is free of artificiality of a typical poetic expression.

Fantasy or Life by Vivian Gilbert Zabel

So often you say you love me,
Yet you seemingly don't know
I cannot live in fantasy's fog,
Always in the blurred drug of dreams.
I need the clear, crisp light
Found in reality's realm of day,
Not the darkness of mere existence.
Little Father by Li-Young Lee
I buried my father in my heart.
Now he grows in me, my strange son,
My little root who won't drink milk,
Little pale foot sunk in unheard-of night,
Little clock spring newly wet
In the fire, little grape, parent to the future
Wine, a son the fruit of his own son,
Little father I ransom with my life.