WRITING

HACKS
Feb 2022. V1

A. Michael ‘McDouglad’ Tupu

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TABLE OF
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In this ISSUE: .......................................................................... 1

A ............................................................................................ 3
B ............................................................................................ 4
C ............................................................................................ 5
D ........................................................................................... 6
E ............................................................................................ 7
F, G ........................................................................................ 8
H, I ........................................................................................ 9
K, L ...................................................................................... 10
M, N ..................................................................................... 11
O ......................................................................................... 12
P .......................................................................................... 13
Q, R ...................................................................................... 14
S .......................................................................................... 15
T, V ...................................................................................... 16
Contact me ............................................................................ 17

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“to be constant is to be
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POEM TYPES BY
ALPHABETICAL
ORDER

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1. ABC

2. Abecedarian

3. Acrostic

4. Alexandrine

5. Allegory

6. Anacreontic

7. Anagram

8. Anaphora

9. Arabian sonnet

10. Ars Poetica

11. Aubade

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12. Balassi stanza

13. Ballad

14. Ballade

15. Beymorlin sonnet

16. Bio

17. Blank verse

18. Blues poem

19. Blues sonnet

20. Bop

21. Bref Double

22. Brisbane sonnet

23. Bucolic

24. Burlesque

25. Burns stanza

26. Busta sonetto

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27. Cacophony

28. Canzone

29. Canzonetta

30. Carol

31. Carpe diems

32. Cascade

33. Catena Rondo

34. Cavatina

35. Cento

36. Chain verse

37. Chance operations

38. Choka

39. Cinquain

40. Clerihew

41. Collins Sestet

42. Conceit

43. Couplet

44. Curtal Sonnet

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45. Dactyl

46. Decastich

47. Didactic poetry

48. Dirge

49. Divino sonetto

50. Dizain

51. Doggerel

52. Double dyctal

53. Dramatic monologue

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54. Echo verse

55. Eclogue

56. Ekphrastic

57. Elegy

58. Envoi / Envoy

59. Epic

60. Epigram

61. Epistle

62. Epistrophe

63. Epitaph

64. Epithalamion

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F, G

65. Found poem

66. Fourteener

67. Free verse

68. Ghazal

69. Glosa

70. Gnomic verse

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H, I

71. Haiku

72. Heroic couplet

73. Horatian ode

74. Hymn

75. Iambic pentameter

76. Idyll / idyl

77. Imagery

78. Irregular ode

79. Italian sonnet

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K, L

80. Kennings

81. Kyrielle

82. Kwansaba

83. Lament

84. Landays

85. Lay

86. Light verse

87. Limerick

88. Lyric

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M, N

89. Madrigal

90. Mock epic

91. Monoku

92. Narrative

93. Nonet

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94. Occasional poem

95. Obituary

96. Octave

97. Ode

98. Ottava Rima

99. OULIPO

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100. Palindrome / Minor poetry

101. Palinode

102. Panegyric

103. Pantoum

104. Pastoral

105. Pindaric ode

106. Prose poem

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Q, R

107. Qasida

108. Quatern

109. Quatrain

110. Refrain

111. Renga

112. Rhyme Royal / Rime Royale

113. Rictameter

114. Riddle

115. Rispetto

116. Rondeau

117. Rondel / Roundel

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118. Sapphic

119. Senryu

120. Sestet

121. Sestina

122. Shadorma

123. Shi

124. Sijo

125. Slam

126. Somonka

127. Sonnet

128. Spenzerian stanza

129. Stanza

130. Syllabic verse

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T, V

131. Tanka

132. Tercet

133. Terza Rima

134. Tetractys

135. The blitz

136. Triolet

137. Triversion

138. Tyburn

139. Verse

140. Verse paragraph

141. Villanelle

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