classic poems
Canon's treasured stanzas
Classic poems are works of poetry considered timeless or exemplary, having endured as part of a literary canon: We studied classic poems like "The Road Not Taken" in high school.
The phrase often refers to older, established verse rather than contemporary work.
What counts as classic varies by culture and curriculum, though certain poems—Shakespeare's sonnets, Homer's epics—appear on most lists.
- SonnetFourteen-line formal verse
- iambic pentameterUnstressed-stressed pattern, five feet
- rhyme schemeSound-matching arrangement in poetry
- ModernismBreak from traditional forms
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
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