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Villanelle
Five tercets with a concluding quatrain. The first and third lines of the first stanza get repeated as a kind of refrain. The first and third lines of each tercet rhyme with each other and the second lines of each stanza rhyme with each other. The last two lines of the quatrain are the original first and third line refrain lines. (Villanelle? More like villainOUS!)
Golden Shovel
A golden shovel is a poetic form invented by Terrance Hayes in which the last word of each lines forms a quote, poetic line, song lyric, or other text written by someone else.
Duplex
A form invented by Jericho brown consisting of seven pairs of couplets in which the second line of the first couplet is repeated as the first line of the second couplet. The second line of the second couplet is repeated as the first line of the third couplet, and so on until the final couplet in which the second line of the final couplet is the first line of the first couplet.
Free Verse
Free verse has no meter or rhyme scheme.
Cento
From the Latin meaning "patchwork garment," a cento creates a patchwork poem by borrowing lines from other texts.
Pantoum
A poem of Malay origin that consists of any number of quatrains in which the second and fourth lines of each quatrain reappear as the first and third lines of the next quatrain. Commonly, the second and fourth lines of the final quatrain repeat the first and third lines of the very first quatrain.
Zuihitsu
A Japanese form made popular by Sei Shonogan's The Pillow Book which embraces lists, random notes, and thoughts. Usually written in a collection of snippets of unrelated topics.
Haiku/Lune
Haiku -- A Japanese short-form poem about nature.
Lune -- also known as the "American Haiku" a short form poem invented by Robert Kelly consisting of a tercet with a 5-3-5 syllable pattern.
Collum Lune -- invented by Jack Collum, a short-form poem consisting of a tercet with a 3-5-3 word pattern.
Ghazal
A traditionally Arabic poetic form consisting of 5-15 sets of couplets with a refrain established in the first couplet that is repeated in the subsequent second lines of each couplet.
Ekphrasis
A poem inspired by a work of art
Abecedarian
A poem in which the first letter of each line is a consecutive letter of the alphabet.
Dada Poem
Generated from randomness. Commonly derived from cutting up words from a newspaper and drawing them at random.
Ribcage
A poetic form invented by Athena Liu consisting of 24 lines alternating between 12-syllable lines and a monosyllabic word in brackets. At the end of the text, the bracketed words — or spine — are read from top to bottom.
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