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  • Abstract (or Sound) Poetry. Abstract was a term used by Dame Edith Sitwell.
  • Acrostic. A form for hidden messages.
  • Ae Freislighe. Irish quatrain with intense rhyme scheme.
  • Alphabet Poetry. Perfect back-to-school poetry.
  • Anagrammatic Poetry. More fun with letters.
  • Awdl Gywydd. Welsh quatrain with end and internal rhymes.
  • Blackout Poems. Making poems from articles.
  • The Blitz. 50-liner invented by Robert Keim.
  • The Bop. Three stanzas and three refrains, developed by Afaa Michael Weaver.
  • Bref Double. French quatorzain.
  • Byr a Thoddaid Poems. Welsh quatrain.
  • Cascade. Variable length form invented by Udit Bhatia.
  • Catena Rondo. Interlinked quatrain form developed by Robin Skelton.
  • Chanso. Five to six stanzas with an envoy.
  • Chant. If it works once, run it into the ground.
  • Cinquain. Popular five-liner.
  • Clogyrnach. 6-line Welsh form.
  • Concrete Poems. Shapely poetry.
  • Contrapuntal Poems. Independent poems that get intertwined.
  • Curtal Sonnet. 11-line sonnet invented by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
  • Cyrch A Chwta. 8-line Welsh form with 7 syllables per line.
  • Cywydd Llosgyrnog. 6-liner with internal rhymes and variable syllables.
  • Decima. Various versions of 10-line forms.
  • Descort. French form that makes each line special.
  • Diminishing Verse. Poems that disappear one letter per line.
  • Dizain. French 10×10 form.
  • Dodoitsu. 4-line Japanese form.
  • Echo Verse. A poem that repeats itself (self).
  • Elegy. Song of sorrow or mourning.
  • Epitaphs. Or tombstone poetics.
  • Erasure Poems. Like blackout poems, but without the markers.
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  • The Fib. Fun form from Gregory K. Pincus.
  • Found Poetry. Finders keepers, right?
  • Ghazal. Couplets and a refrain.
  • Glose (or Glosa). 40-line poem based off an epigraph.
  • Gogyohka. 5-line poem developed by Enta Kusakabe.
  • Golden Shovel. Terrance Hayes-invented, Gwendolyn Brooks-inspired.
  • Gwawdodyn. Welsh poetic form.
  • Haibun. Japanese form popularized by Matsuo Basho.
  • Haiku. Popular Japanese form.
  • Haiku Sonnet. 4 haiku and a couplet.
  • Hay(na)ku. Eileen Tabios form with 3 lines, 6 words.
  • Hir a Thoddaid. 6 lines that mostly all share the same rhyme.
  • Huitain. French 8-liner with an ababbcbc rhyme scheme.
  • Imayo. 4-line Japanese poem with a pause in the middle of each line.
  • Interlocking Rubaiyat. Used by Omar Khayyam, Robert Frost, and many others.
  • Katauta Poems. Haiku (or senryu) for lovers.
  • Kimo. Israeli version of haiku.
  • Kyrielle. Adjustable French form.
  • Lai. Nine-liner from the French.
  • Landay. Poem comprised of self-contained couplets.
  • Limerick. 5 lines and naughty rhymes.
  • List Poem. Poetry at the grocery store.
  • Luc Bat. Vietnamese “6-8” form.
  • Lune. Robert Kelly invention, also known as American haiku.
  • Madrigal. Learn both the Italian and English versions.
  • Magic 9. The “abacadaba” 9-line rhyme scheme.
  • Minute Poem. 3 quatrains and a simple rhyme scheme.
  • Mondo. Brief collaborative Q&A poem.
  • Monotetra. Quatrain madness developed by Michael Walker.
  • Nonet. Nine-line countdown poem.
  • Ode. Praise poetry!
  • Ottava Rima. ABC rhymes in 8 lines.
  • Ovillejo Poems. 10-liner popularized by Miguel de Cervantes.
Master Poetic Forms!

Learn how to write sestina, shadorma, haiku, monotetra, golden shovel, and more with The Writer’s Digest Guide to Poetic Forms, by Robert Lee Brewer.
This e-book covers more than 40 poetic forms and shares examples to illustrate how each form works. Discover a new universe of poetic possibilities and apply it to your poetry today!
  • Palindrome (or Mirror Poetry). Reflective poetic form.
  • Pantoum. The repetitive form from Malay.
  • Paradelle. Silly and/or psycho form from Billy Collins.
  • Prose. Just when you thought poetry was defined by line breaks.
  • Qasida. Guest post by Ren Powell.
  • Quatern. French 4×4 form.
  • Rannaigheact Mhor. Irish form that fits a lot of rules into 28 syllables.
  • Rhupunt. Welsh form that offers variability and rigidity simultaneously.
  • Rimas Dissolutas. Old French form that rhymes and doesn’t rhyme.
  • Rispetto. Italian poetic form.
  • Rondeau. 15 lines, 3 stanzas, and a lot of rhymes.
  • Rondel. 13 lines in 3 stanzas.
  • Rondine. 12-liner with a refrain.
  • The Roundabout. Form from Sara Diane Doyle and David Edwards.
  • Roundelay. Simple lyric poem that uses a refrain.
  • Seguidilla. Spanish 7-liner that began as a dance song.
  • Senryu. What many people consider haiku.
  • Sestina. The form poets either love or hate.
  • Shadorma. Spanish 6-liner.
  • Sijo. Korean poetic form.
  • Skeltonic Verse. “Tumbling verse” named after originator, John Skelton.
  • Somonka. Japanese collaborative form.
  • Sonnet. Shakespeare’s 14-line fave.
  • Strambotto. Hendecasyllabic octave with abababab rhyme scheme.
  • Tanka. Kinda like a haiku plus a couplet.
  • Tautogram. Poem in which all words start with the same letter.
  • Terzanelle. What happens when the terza rima and villanelle combine.
  • Than-bauk. Burmese descending rhyme tercet (or linked verse).
  • Trenta-Sei. 36-liner invented by John Ciardi.
  • Treochair. Alliterative tercets that rhyme with variable 3/7/7 lines.
  • Tricubes. 3 stanzas by 3 lines by 3 syllables.
  • Trimeric. 13-line form invented by Charles A. Stone.
  • Triolet. 8-line French form.
  • Triversen. William Carlos Williams invention: six tercets.
  • Villanelle. Five tercets and a quatrain.
  • Zappai. Just another 3-liner form.

TOP 80 Poems:


Poems awaken the dormant soul in us. We all come at place, where we feel dejected and disenfranchised with this materialistic world, once in our lives. At that time of undetermined condition and confusion, the poems will make our heart clear of all the debris and unwanted feelings and make our heart pure with the awakened soul. We have to make it clear that we want peace and love in this wonderful life over all other things of materialism. Here are those poems which come under this kind of nature to make yourself proud of having been born MAN / WOMAN in this beautiful world. We have collected these poems with deligence and long-waiting. The list may vary from person to person. Of course, no one could determine what the best poem is. The choice of yours may be different. Ours is not the fianl list. You can prepare your own list of the TOP 100 poems

  1. Warning( Jenny Joseph )
  2. Hope is The Thing with Feathers.( Emily Dickinson )
  3. The Highwayman( Alfred Noyes )
  4. A Poison Tree( William Blake )
  5. Daffodils( William Wordsworth )
  6. All the World is a Stage.( William Shakespeare )
  7. O Captain! My Captain!!( Walt Whitman )
  8. Let Me Die A Youngman Death.( Roger McGough )
  9. All That is Gold Does Not Glitter!( John Ronald Reuel Tolkien )
  10. Mother to Son( Langston Hughes )
  11. The Lesson( Roger McGough )
  12. A Fairy Song( William Shakespeare )
  13. On The Ning Nang Nong( Spike Milligan )
  14. Ozymandias( Percy Bysshe Shelley )
  15. No Man Is An Island.( John Donne )
  16. I Am Not Yours.( Sara Teasdale )
  17. A Smile To Remember( Charles Bukowski )
  18. Trees( Joyce Kilmer )
  19. Alone With Everybody( Charles Bukowski )
  20. How Do I Love Thee?( Elizabeth Barrett Browning )
  21. Richard Cory( Edwin Arlington Robinson )
  22. A Thing of Beauty( John Keats )
  23. A Psalm of Life( Henry Wadsworth Longfellow )
  24. Why do I love You Sir?( Emily Dickinson )
  25. Remember( Christina Georgina Rossetti )
  26. Bright Star( John Keats )
  27. The Pig( Roald Dahl )
  28. I Loved You.( Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin )
  29. An Almost Made Up Poem( Charles Bukowski )
  30. The Tiger ( William Blake )
  31. Shall I compare thee to a summer day?( William Shakespeare )
  32. Faith is A Fine Invention.( Emily Dickinson )
  33. I Choose The Mountain. ( Howard Simon )
  34. First Day at School( Roger McGough )
  35. A Character( William Wordsworth )
  36. Dulce ET Decorum EST( Wilfred Owen )
  37. One Art( Elizabeth Bishop )
  38. Hot and Cold( Roald Dahl )
  39. And Death Shall Have No Dominion( Dylan Thomas )
  40. A Clear Midnight( Walt Whitman )
  41. Jabberwocky( Lewis Carroll )
  42. e Real Cool( Gwendolyn Brooks )
  43. Death Be Not Proud( John Donne )
  44. A Hint at What Is Beautiful( Yoonoos Peerbocus )
  45. A Red Red Rose( Robert Burns )
  46. We Wear The Mask.( Paul Laurence Dunbar )
  47. A Silly Poem( Spike Milligan )
  48. Love Philosophy( Percy Bysshe Shelley )
  49. Auguries of Innocence( William Blake )
  50. Lovesong( Ted Hughes )
  51. Dover Beach( Matthew Arnold )
  52. The Listeners( Walter De La Mare )
  53. Solitude( Ella Wheeler Wilcox )
  54. I Cry.( Tupac Shakur )
  55. Anthem for Doomed Youth( Wilfred Owen )
  56. Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face.( Jack Prelutsky )
  57. Forgetfulness( Billy Collins )
  58. The Red Wheel-Barrow( William Carlos Williams )
  59. I Am( John Clare )
  60. When You Are Old( William Butler Yeats )
  61. Abou Ben Adhem( James Henry Leigh Hunt )
  62. A Lover Calls( Khalil Gibran )
  63. First Love( John Clare )
  64. Love after Love( Derek Walcott )
  65. Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens( Jack Prelutsky )
  66. The Life That I Have( Leo Marks )
  67. On His Blindness( John Milton )
  68. I Thought of You.( Sara Teasdale )
  69. She Walks in Beauty.( George Gordon Byron )
  70. A Child Said What is The Grass.( Walt Whitman )
  71. A Word to Husbands( Ogden Nash )
  72. He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven.( William Butler Yeats )
  73. When I Have Fears( John Keats )
  74. The Rose that Grew from Concrete( Tupac Shakur )
  75. Another Reason Why I Do not Keep A Gun In The House.( Billy Collins )
  76. Friendship( Henry David Thoreau )
  77. All You Who Sleep Tonight( Vikram Seth )
  78. Silver( Walter De La Mare )
  79. A Crazed Girl( William Butler Yeats )
  80. Leisure( William Henry Davies 

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