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Genre/Forms (1-31 of 31)
Poetry
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-- See Also the narrower term Free verse


Poems whose rhythms are based on the cadences of common speech instead of on conventional metrical patterns
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-- See Also the narrower term Historical poetry


Poems set during a recognizable time period prior to the time in which they were written
3

-- See Also the narrower term Science fiction poetry


Poetry that depicts imagined scientific or technological advances (e.g., time travel, artificial intelligence) and their impact on society
4

-- See Also the narrower term Sijo


Traditional Korean lyrics with stanzas that average 45 syllables, arranged in three lines of four phrase-groupings apiece
5

-- See Also the narrower term Visual poetry


Poems whose full effect depends on the typographical or pictorial arrangement of text, images and/or symbols
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-- See Also the narrower term Political poetry


Poetry that features the political milieu
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-- See Also the narrower term Nature poetry


Poetry that romanticizes the natural world and emphasizes nature for its own sake
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-- See Also the narrower term War poetry


Poetry that features military conflicts
9

-- See Also the narrower term Experimental poetry


Poems that emphasize innovative or unconventional technique
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-- See Also the narrower term Topographical poetry


Poetry about specific geographic locations
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-- See Also the narrower term Humorous poetry


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-- See Also the narrower term Englyns


Short Welsh poems generally written in quatrains or tercets with complex rules governing alliteration and rhyme
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-- See Also the narrower term Occasional verse


Poetry written for a particular occasion
14

-- See Also the narrower term Gnomic poetry


Short poems expressing general truths
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-- See Also the narrower term Haiku


Three-line unrhymed poems consisting of 17 syllables that express a single idea, image, or feeling that is generally related to nature. For three-line unrhymed humorous poems consisting of 17 syllables that generally satirize human nature or emotions see Senryu
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-- See Also the narrower term Epistolary poetry


Poems in the form of a letter
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-- See Also the narrower term Narrative poetry


Poems that tell a story
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-- See Also the narrower term Lyric poetry


Songlike poetry that is short, subjective, and personal in subject matter
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-- See Also the narrower term Christmas poetry


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-- See Also the narrower term Erotic poetry


21

-- See Also the narrower term Ghazals (Poetry)


Poems consisting of at least five couplets that are linked by rhyme and/or repetition, in which the final couplet generally mentions the poet by name
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-- See Also the narrower term Nursery rhymes


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-- See Also the narrower term Paranormal poetry


Poetry that features human characters that are often involved with the occult, witchcraft, spiritualism, psychic phenomena, vodou, etc., and interact with supernatural beings
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-- See Also the narrower term Spoken word poetry


Poetry that is meant to be performed and that is heavily stressed, metrically regular, and characterized by improvisation, free association, and word play. For poetry meant to be performed that emphasizes sounds instead of the semantic meaning of the words themselves see Sound poetry
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-- See Also the narrower term Sound poetry


Poetry meant to be performed that emphasizes sounds instead of the semantic meaning of the words themselves. For poetry that is meant to be performed and that is heavily stressed, metrically regular, and characterized by improvisation, free association, and word play, see Spoken word poetry
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-- See Also the narrower term Prose poems


Prose that utilizes poetic techniques to emphasize sound, imagery, and figurative language
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-- See Also the narrower term Bawdy poetry


Poems that are sexually indecent, coarse, or lewd
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-- See Also the narrower term Love poetry


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-- See Also the narrower term Religious poetry


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-- See Also the narrower term Sestinas


Poems that consist of 39 lines in six six-line stanzas followed by a three-line envoi, in which the same six end words occur in each stanza but in a shifting order
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-- See Also the narrower term Sports poetry


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