Poetry Kaleidoscope

19th century alexandrine alliteration alliterative verse American anapest ancient Anglo-Saxon anthology Assonance ballads blank verse cæsura called Chinese classical common composed consists couplet culture dactyl developed early Edda English poetry Englyn epic feet foot free verse French genre ghazal Greek haikai haiku half rhyme Heian period heroic hexameter hokku Holorime iamb iambic pentameter Irish Italian Japanese John known language Latin limerick literary literature lyric poetry Man'yōshū meter metre metrical modern modernist narrative Norse octave Old English original pattern performance poetry period poem Poet Laureate poetic form poetry written Pope popular prose Psalms quatrain Renga rhyme scheme rhythm rima Robert Romantic rune satire scrypt senryu sestet Shakespeare Slam song sonnet sound spondee stanza stressed structure style T. S. Eliot tanka term tetrameter theme tradition translation trochee unstressed syllables usually verse form virelai waka William words Wordsworth writing wrote