1) Ode

 Example #1:
“Ode to the Confederate Dead (By Allen Tate)”
“Row after row with strict impunity
The headstones yield their names to the element,
The wind whirrs without recollection;
In the riven troughs the splayed leaves
Pile up, of nature the casual sacramen
To the seasonal eternity of death …”
 Example #2:
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (By William
Wordsworth)
“There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore; —”

 Example #3:
Ode to the West Wind (By Percy Bysshe Shelley)
“Scatter, as from an unextinguish’d hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawaken’d earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”

 Example #4:
The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode (By Thomas Gray)
“A thousand rills their mazy progress take:
Now the rich stream of music winds along
Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong …
Now rolling down the steep amain,
Headlong, impetuous, see it pour:
The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar.”
2) Haiku
 Example #1:
Pink cherry blossoms
Cast shimmering reflections
On seas of Japan
Copyright © Andrea

 Example #2:
salt-waves caress sand
tickling my toes and heart
in their short-spun wake
Copyright © 2002 Diana
 Example #3:
Thirds (By Jeffrey Winke)
Song birds
at the train yard’s edge
two cars coupling

 Example #4:
To a Leg of Heron (By Basho)
To a leg of a heron
Adding a long shank
Of a pheasant.

 Example #5:
A Caress (By Paul Holmes)
Strokes of affection
Light and tenderly expressed
Keep love’s bonds so strong
3) Sonnet
 Example #1:
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

 Example #2:
Shakespearean Sonnet
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

(Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, 1594)

4) Quintain
 Example 1#:
"Ode to a Skylark," by Percy Bysshe Shelley:
In the golden lightning
Of the sunken sun,
O'er which clouds are bright'ning,
Thou dost float and run,
Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
 Example 2#:
"Opening My Toybox," by Ryter Roethicle:
Opening my toybox after all this time
Those within saw my look and my shame,
They knew of my life, and was not to blame.
So I spoke with, Kanga and Wambi again,
Clearing memories covered in dust and grime
 Example 3#:
"There was an Old Man with a Beard," by Edward Lear:
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!
 Example 4#:
"Home is so Sad" by Philip Larkin:
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Instead, bereft
Of anyone to please, it withers so,
Having no heart to put aside the theft.
And turn again to what it started as,
A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide. You can see how it was:
Look at the pictures and the cutlery.
The music in the piano stool. That vase.
And turn again to what it started as,
A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide. You can see how it was:
Look at the pictures and the cutlery.
The music in the piano stool. That vase.
5) Cinquain
 Example #1:
Long Shadows
Maples
in the morning
sunlight cast long shadows
upon the snow like a roadmap
of limbs.
Copyright © 2005 Marie Summers

 Example #2:
Acrobats
Acrobats
Flexible, amusing
Flipping, twirling, jumping
They make me laugh
Performers

 Example #3:
Star
Star
Hot, radiant
Shining, burning, exploding
It gives life to everything
Sun
 Example #4:
Penguins
Penguins
White, black
Waddling, swimming, eating
They are playing in the water
Emperors
6) Diamante
 Antonim #:
Cat
Gentle, Sleepy
Purring, Meowing, Scratching
Whiskers, Fur, Collar, Leash
Barking, Licking, Digging
Slobbery, Playful
Dog

 Synonym #:
Monsters
Evil, Spooky
Howling, Shrieking, Wailing
Ghosts, Vampires, Goblins, Witches
Flying, Scaring, Terrifying
Creepy, Crawly
Creatures

 Antonim #:
Sun
Fiery, Yellow
Burning, Blinding, Exploding
Flame, Light, Night, Crescent
Shining, Orbiting, Reflecting
Cold, Silver
Moon
7) Acrostic
 Example 1 #:

 Example 2 #:

 Example 3#:
"spring"
Sunny days
Plants awakening
Raindrops on the roof
Interesting clouds
New flowers
Gray skies

 Example 4#:
“Sport”
FootballS and basketballs
UmPires and refs
Defending yOur goal
ScoRing goals
A real Team effort
Crowd goeS wild
8) Limericks
 Example 1 #:
There was an young man of Darjeeling
Endowed with such delicate feeling.
When he read on the door
"Do not spit on the floor",
He jumped up and then spat on the ceiling!

It's been told an old man had sent Emails,

To some various dubious females,
He was asked what they said,
But he just shook his head.
I would rather not go into details.

 Example 2#:
A Wonderful Bird Is The Pelican
Dixon Lanier Merritt

A wonderful bird is the pelican,

His bill will hold more than his belican,
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week
But I'm damned if I see how the helican!
Another version:
A funny old bird is a pelican.
His beak can hold more than his belican.
Food for a week
He can hold in his beak,
But I don't know how the helican.
9) Concrete
 Example 1#:

 Example 2#:
"Easter Wings," by 17th-century poet George Herbert
10) Free verse
 Example 1 #:
T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question ...
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.
 Example 2#:
"After the Sea-Ship" by Walt Whitman
After the Sea-Ship-after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,
Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:
Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,
Waves, undulating waves-liquid, uneven, emulous waves,
Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,
Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface;