This document discusses different genres and forms of poetry. It describes narrative poetry, lyric poetry, and dramatic poetry. It also covers formal verse structures like meter, feet, and lines. Common rhyming patterns are discussed like couplets, tercets, and quatrains. Shakespearean sonnets follow a specific rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. Blank verse and free verse emerged in the 20th century with looser rhythms and forms. Concrete poems take written shapes that relate to their meaning.