Types of poems

• Sonnet 


  14 line poem with a specific rhyme scheme
• Haiku


  A Japanese poem of 17 syllables in 3 lines of 5,7,5
• Limerick


  A 5 line poem with an aabba rhyme scheme
• Free verse


  Unrhymed poetry with no set meter
• Narrative Poem


  A poem that tells a story
• Lyric poem


  A shorter poem expressing emotion or perspective
• Rhymed poetry


  Using words that rhyme to create a musical flow
• Blank verse


  Un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter
• Epics


  Long narrative poem
• Pastoral poetry


  It visualises rural life and a landscape
• Elegies


  A poem that expresses sad feelings usually death
• Ode


  a lyric poem, typically one in the form of an address to a particular subject, written in varied or irregular metre.
• Ballad


  a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas