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How do I find out what a poem of a certain number of lines is called, like a poem of four lines?
Here are some interesting words about poems.
- ABC - poem in which lines begin with letters of alphabet in order
- acrostic - poem in which first letters of lines spell something
- aubade - poem, morning
- ballad, lay - poem meant to be sung, narrative
- ballade - poem of three stanzas of seven or eight lines each
- bucolic, eclogue, idyll, pastoral - poem about rural life
- canto, stanza, stave - poem's set of verses
- decastich, dizain - poem of 10 lines
- decatessarad, fourteener - poem of 14 lines
- dirge, elegy - poem or song lamenting deceased
- doggerel - poem, crude irregular
- eclogue - poem, short and pastoral
- elegy, monody, threnody - poem as lament for deceased
- epic, heroic poem - poem on heroic figure
- epigram - poem, short witty
- epithalamium, prothalamion - poem for bride and bridegroom
- haiku - poem, Japanese 3-line, 17-syllable
- heptastich - poem of 7 lines
- lyric - poem expressing thoughts and feelings
- mesostich - poem with middle letters of lines forming word
- octastich, ogdoastich - poem of 8 lines
- ode - poem, long lyric
- palinode - poem retracting something said in earlier poem
- quatorzain - poem of 14 lines that is a sonnet
- quatrain - poem of 4 lines
- rondeau - poem of 10 or 13 lines with two rhymes
- sijo - poem of 24 syllables in 3 lines, Korean lyric
- sonnet - poem of 14 lines with conventional decasyllabic rhyme scheme
- tanka - poem, Japanese 5-line 31-syllable
- telestich - poem with final letters of lines forming word
- triolet - poem of 8 lines and two rhymes with two lines repeated
- villanelle - poem of 19 lines with two rhymes
