AP Lit Poetry Forms

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A non-dramatic poem that tells a story

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narrative poem

Front

A fourteen line rhyming poem written in iambic pentameter

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sonnet

Front

A six-line stanza

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sestet

Front

A short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings in an emotional, song-like manner

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lyric

Front

A four-line stanza of poetry

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quatrain

Front

A poem that mourns the loss of someone or something

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elegy

Front

A poem with a specific structure that consists of five tercets followed by a quatrain

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villanelle

Front

A stanza of three lines

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tercet

Front

A poem that tells a story and is often set to music

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ballad

Front

A stanza of eight lines

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octave