Types of Poetry

This type of poem has seven lines and is shaped like a diamond:

• cinquain

• diamante

• alliteration

• limerick

This poem has three lines and 17 syllables:

• limerick

• free verse

• haiku

• cinquain

This poem is a five line stanza that creates and image without using complete sentences:

• acrostic

• couplet

• alliteration

• cinquain

This type of poem is humorous and has three long and two short lines rhyming:

• limerick

• haiku

• alliteration

• free verse

This type of poem has two lines of a verse that join by rhyme:

• cinquain

• acrostic

• couplet

• free verse

This type of poem uses certain letters in each line to spell a word or words:

• acrostic

• aliiteration

• haiku

• couplet

This type of poem uses repetition of initial sounds:

• haiku

• couplet

• acrostic

• alliteration

This type of poetry does not follow any rhyme scheme:

• limerick

• couplet

• free verse

• diamante