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Poetic Forms
- 1. Sestina: a poemof thirty-nine lines, six stanzas with six lines and three line envoi at the end. All unrhymed. Same six end-words must occur in every stanza, but switch order in a set pattern.<br />Free Verse: form of poetry that does not have any set metrical pattern or musical pattern. Often commonly referred to as vers libre.<br />Villanelle: consists of 19 lines, five stanzas with three lines each (tercets) and at the end a four-line stanza (quatrain). A villanelle has no establish meter. The first line is repeated as lines 6, 12, and 18, while the third line is repeated as lines 9, 15, and 19. The rhyme scheme is aba aba aba aba aba abaa. <br />Blank Verse: type of poetry with a regular meter, but no rhyme. In English, the most common meter is iambic pentameter. Blank verse is not broken into stanzas; they are broken into verse paragraphs.<br />Ode: there are three types of odes: Pindaric, Horatian, Irregular. One of the oldest forms of poetry, used for celebrations and occasions.<br />Epic: a very long narrative poem about heroic actions done by an epic hero/ine. No country of origin because were told orally first and then written down as written languages evolved.<br />Heroic Couplet: Consists of one or more pairs that rhyme. Every line has five stressed syllables making it a pentameter. Every second syllable is stressed. Follows an aabbccdd… rhyme scheme. Subject matter can include anything.<br />Dramatic Monologues: a speaker addresses an unseen audience, silent audience or implied audience. The audience is what separates a dramatic monologue from a soliloquy. The speaker is usually arguing and trying to prove a point. Attempts at natural speech.<br />Pantoum: a form of poetry similar to a villanelle in that there are repeating lines throughout the poem. It is composed of a series of quatrains; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next<br />