The document discusses different types of poetry including couplets, sensory poems, phrase poems, cinquain, 5 W poetry, diamond poetry, and acrostic poetry. Examples are provided for each type to illustrate their key characteristics and formats. The types of poetry covered use techniques like rhyming lines, describing senses, listing phrases, following a specific word count pattern, taking the shape of a diamond, and spelling out a word vertically with the first letter of each line.