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Poetry can be a confusing medium, and one of the key reasons for this is the many different forms poetry can be written in. Some rhyme, some don't. Some have a set meter, some don't. Below is, hopefully, a handy little guide to the most popular forms, a cheat sheet to help you navigate the field of poetry easier.
Let's start with the basics.
'''Free Verse'''<br />The most common form of poetry used by contemporary poets, and oftentimes the easiest to deal with.
Free verse is [[Exactly What It Says
'''The [[Sonnet]]'''
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There are two types of sonnets: the Petrarchan (or Italian) sonnet, and the Shakespearean (or English) sonnet. The English sonnet is much more common nowadays. The forms share some basic similarities: all sonnets have fourteen lines, all have a rigid rhyme structure,
{{smallcaps|Petrarchan Sonnet}}<br />The Petrarchan Sonnet isn't often used by English writers today, because the rhyme structure works way better in Italian.
{{smallcaps| Shakespearean Sonnet}}<br />The Shakespearean sonnet has a much more rigid structure than the Petrarchan, which is weird, considering how laid back of a dude Shakespeare was.
Shakespearean sonnets are written, like most of his work, in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is abab cdcd efef gg.
Shakespearean sonnets usually also, in the last two lines, have sort of a [[Twist Ending]], or something that sheds new light on the rest of the poem.
'''The Ode'''
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An ode is usually written in praise or dedication of someone or something (for example, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"). Originally, the ode was a Greek thing, but the English cribbed it in the 17th century.
Odes have three parts: the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode. Basically a fancy Greek way of saying beginning, middle, and end. Though the specific line length of odes varies greatly, all odes will have these parts.
The rhyme scheme of odes can vary, but the most common for English odes is ABABCDECDE.
'''The [[Haiku]]'''
A Japanese form of poetry. We have
'''The Villanelle'''
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