verse form
Sonnet or haiku
Verse form is the structural pattern of a poem—its arrangement of lines, meter, rhyme scheme, and stanzas.
Sonnets, haiku, and villanelles are verse forms, each with specific rules governing length and structure.
She experimented with traditional verse forms before moving to free verse.
The term distinguishes poetry written in established patterns from prose or formless verse.
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
- iambic pentameterUnstressed-stressed pattern, five feet
- rhyme schemeSound-matching arrangement in poetry
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- acrosticVertically spelled hidden message
meter · quatrain · sapphic · sestet · octave · ballad · epic poetry · sestina · rondeau · ottava rima · tercet · villanelle · couplet · stanza · haiku · limerick · scansion · iambic
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