Types Of Poems

Question 1

Pastoral

Answer 1

Idealizes country life

Question 2

Free Verse

Answer 2

Does not rhyme or have regular meter

Question 3

Elegy

Answer 3

A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead

Question 4

Ode

Answer 4

A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter

Question 5

Lyric poem

Answer 5

Emotional rhyming poem

Question 6

Blank verse

Answer 6

Verse without rhyme; uses iambic pentameter

Question 7

Aubade

Answer 7

Appropriate to the dawn or early morning

Question 8

Sonnet

Answer 8

14 lines, formal rhyme schemes, English 10 syllables

Question 9

Ballad

Answer 9

A simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adopted for singing

Question 10

Sestina

Answer 10

6 stanza 6 lines+ final triplet all stanzas having same 6 word line ends

Question 11

Metaphysical poetry

Answer 11

Intellectualized poetry marked by bold and ingenious conceits, incongruous imagery, complexity and subtlety of thought frequent use of paradox and often by deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression

Question 12

Villanelle

Answer 12

19 line form w/ 5 tercets followed by a quatrain

Short poem with a fixed form