Poetic form refers to various sets of "rules" followed by poems of certain types. The rules may describe such aspects as the rhythm or meter (poetry) of the poem, its rhyme scheme, or its use of alliteration.

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Accentual verse Acrostic Aisling Alexandrine Alliteration Alliterative verse Amphibrach Anacrusis Anapaest Anceps Antistrophe Assonance Aubade Awdl B Ballad Ballade Beher Blank verse C Caesura Carmina figurata Chant royal Chronogram Cinquain Clerihew Concrete poetry Consonance Couplet Crown of sonnets Cynghanedd D Dactyl (poetry) Dactylic hexameter Death poem Dimeter Doggerel Double dactyl E Eclogue Elegiac Elegiac couplet Elegy Englyn Enjambement Envoi Epic poetry Epigram

E cont. Epithalamium Epode F Fourteener Free verse G Gayatri Ghazal Grook H Habbie stanza Haibun Haiku Half rhyme Hendecasyllabic verse Hendecasyllable Heroic couplet Heroic verse Hexameter I Iamb Iambic pentameter K Kenning Kigo Kyrielle L Lament Light poetry Limerick (poetry) M Maqta McWhirtle Meter (poetry) Monometer N Narrative poem Nonsense verse Nursery rhyme O Octameter Octave (poetry) Ode Onegin stanza P Pantoum Paradelle Pentameter Petrarchan sonnet Poem and song Poetic diction Poster-poem Poulter's measure Pruning poem Pyrrhic

Q Qaafiyaa Quatorzain Quatrain R Radif Rapping Rhyme Rhyme royal Rhyme scheme Rondeau Rondelet S Sapphic stanza Saturnian Scat singing Senryu Sestet Sestina Shakespearean sonnet Shi (poetry) Slam poetry Sonnet Confessionalism Spenserian sonnet Spenserian stanza Spondee Sprung rhythm Stanza Strophe Stylistic device Syllabic verse T Tanaga Tercet Terza rima Terzanelle Tetrameter Toasting Trimeter Triolet Tristubh Trochee V Verse paragraph Villanelle Virelai nouveau W Waka