Types of Poems
There are many different types of poems. The difference between each type is based on the format, rhyme scheme and subject matter.
• Allegory (Time, Real and Imaginary by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
• Ballad (As You Came from the Holy Land by Sir Walter Raleigh)
• Blank verse (The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
• Burlesque (Hudibras by Samuel Butler)
• Cacophony (The Bridge by Hart Crane)
• Canzone (A Lady Asks Me by Guido Cavalcanti)
• Conceit (The Flea by John Donne)
• Dactyl (The Lost Leader by Robert Browning)
• Elegy (Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard by Thomas Gray)
• Epic (The Odyssey by Homer)
• Epitaph (An Epitaph by Walter de la Mare)
• Free verse (The Waste-Land by TS Eliot)
• Haiku (How Many Gallons by Issa)
• Imagery (In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound)
• Limerick (There Was a Young Lady of Dorking by Edward Lear)
• Lyric (When I Have Fears by John Keats)
• Name (Nicky by Marie Hughes)
• Narrative (The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe)
• Ode (Ode to a Nightingale by Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• Pastoral (To a Mouse by Robert Burns)
• Petrarchan sonnet (London, 1802 by William Wordsworth)
• Quatrain (The Tyger by William Blake)
• Refrain (Troy Town by Dante Rosetti)
• Senryu (Hide and Seek by Shuji Terayama)
• Shakespearean sonnet (Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare)
• Sonnet (Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats)
• Tanka (A Photo by Alexis Rotella)
• Terza rima (Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost)