FORMS

OF
POETRY
BLANK VERSE
•A poem of consistent length
and meter but do not employ
rhyme.
HAIKU
• Brief Japanese verse form of
poem consisting of three lines
and seventeen syllables.
EPIC
• A narrative poem about a hero.
LIMERICK
•A poem consisting of five lines
wherein lines one, two, and five and
lines three and four are rhyming.
FREE VERSE
•A poem without standard
rhyme patterns and line
length.
SONNET
• A poem consisting of fourteen
lines of iambic pentameter .
• Makes use of rhyme