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POETRY

Investigating the structures of poetry

[a page always under construction!]

A hard page to design with so much information to cover...and so many kinds of poetry. 
Explore these pages; if you see something glaringly missing, do let me know!

A - E F - J K - O P - S T - Z
acrostics free verse limerick pastoral tanka
alliteration haiku lyric personification voice
allusion homonym main idea point of view word choice
antonym hyperbole metaphor rhyme  
assonance/consonance iambic pentameter meter rondeau  
ballad   narrative senryu  
ballade   nonsense poetry simile  
blank verse   ode sonnet  
cinquain   onomatopoeia symbol  
clerihew   oxymoron synonym  
concrete        
couplet        
diamante        
elegy        
epic        
euphony