Forms

of poetry
There are many forms of poetry including:

 Couplet
 Tercet
 Acrostic
 Cinquain
 Haiku
 Senryu
 Concrete poem
 Free verse
 Lime rick
•Couplet

A couplet is two rhyming lines of poetry,

usually of the same length and meter.
Entire poems may be written in
couplets.
•tercet

A tercet is a unit of three lines of

poetry. It can be a poem unto itself, or
it can occur within a larger poem. A
tercet may rhyme, but it does not have
to. It does not matter if the three lines
are metered or not
•Acrostic

An acrostic is a piece of writing in which a

particular set of letters—typically the first
letter of each line, word, or paragraph—spells
out a word or phrase with special significance
to the text. Acrostics are most commonly
written as a form of poetry, but they can also
be found in prose or used as word puzzles.
•cinquain

a short poem consisting of five, usually

unrhymed lines containing, respectively,
two, four, six, eight, and two syllables.
•haiku

a major form of Japanese verse, written

in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5,
7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly
evocative allusions and comparisons,
often on the subject of nature or one of
the seasons.
•senryu

a three-line unrhymed Japanese poem

structurally similar to a haiku but treating
human nature usually in an ironic or satiric
vein. It is also unlike haiku in that it usually
does not have any references to the seasons.
•concrete poem

poetry in which effects are created by the

physical arrangement of words in
patterns or forms rather than by the use
of traditional language structure.
•free verse

A regular pattern of sound or rhythm

may emerge in free-verse lines, but the
poet does not adhere to a metrical plan
in their composition.
•lime rick

It consists of five lines, rhyming aabba,

and the dominant metre is anapestic,
with two metrical feet in the third and
fourth lines and three feet in the others.
Thank you for listening!!!