Introduction
● Poetry is written in closed or open form
● Closed-form poetry: written in specific patterns, using a meter, line length, and line
groupings called stanzas.
● Open-form poetry: do not use regular rhythmic patterns (i.e., metric feet), are usually
unrhymed, have varying line lengths, and have no set line groupings.
Stanzas
● 2 line stanzas: couplets
● 3 line stanzas:
○ Tercets
○ Triplets
○ Terza rima
● 4 line stanzas: quaatrains
● 5 line stanzas: quintets
● 6 line stanzas: sestets
● 7 line stanzas: septets
● 8 line stanzas: octaves
Haiku
● Japenese
● Syllabic poetry
● 17 syllables
○ 1st line: 5 syllables
○ 2nd line: 7 syllables
○ 3rd line: 5 syllables
Limerick
● Five Noise Nonsense poem
● The first line ends with the proper name of the place or person
● Rhyme: aabba
● Meter
○ 1st, 2nd and 5th lines are anapestic trimeter
○ 3rd and fourth lines are anapestic dimeter
Villanelle
● French
● Originated with round dance
● Stanzsa and rhyme
○ 5 tercets: aba aba aba aba
○ 1 quatrain:
● Poetry is written in closed or open form
● Closed-form poetry: written in specific patterns, using a meter, line length, and line
groupings called stanzas.
● Open-form poetry: do not use regular rhythmic patterns (i.e., metric feet), are usually
unrhymed, have varying line lengths, and have no set line groupings.
Stanzas
● 2 line stanzas: couplets
● 3 line stanzas:
○ Tercets
○ Triplets
○ Terza rima
● 4 line stanzas: quaatrains
● 5 line stanzas: quintets
● 6 line stanzas: sestets
● 7 line stanzas: septets
● 8 line stanzas: octaves
Haiku
● Japenese
● Syllabic poetry
● 17 syllables
○ 1st line: 5 syllables
○ 2nd line: 7 syllables
○ 3rd line: 5 syllables
Limerick
● Five Noise Nonsense poem
● The first line ends with the proper name of the place or person
● Rhyme: aabba
● Meter
○ 1st, 2nd and 5th lines are anapestic trimeter
○ 3rd and fourth lines are anapestic dimeter
Villanelle
● French
● Originated with round dance
● Stanzsa and rhyme
○ 5 tercets: aba aba aba aba
○ 1 quatrain:
