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Examples Highlight the Poetic Types

Each type of poetry is characterized by its own style. By understanding the various styles,
you are better able to learn the variances between each of the different types.

Haiku Poems
The Old Pond by Matshuo Basho is an example of a haiku:

The old pond-- a frog jumps in, sound of water.


Truth in Advertising by Yahia Lababidi is another example of a haiku:
Morning epiphany, applicable to love and life, in haiku-like purity.

Free Verse Poems


Because free verse poems are the least well defined, there are numerous examples of free
verse poems. This excerpt from This is Marriage, is by Marianne Moore is one such
example:

This institution, perhaps one should say enterpriseout of respect for which one says one
need not change one's mind about a thing one has believed in, requiring public
promises of one's intention to fulfil a private obligation: I wonder what Adam and Eve
think of it by this time, this fire-gilt steel alive with goldenness;
This excerpt from Little Father by Li-Young Lee is another example of free verse poetry:

I buried my father in my heart.


Now he grows in me, my strange son,
My little root who wont drink milk,
Little pale foot sunk in unheard-of night,
Little clock spring newly wet
In the fire,little grape, parent to the future
Wine, a son the fruit of his own son,
Little father I ransom with my life.

Cinquains

A cinquain is a five-line poem inspired by Japanese haiku's. There are many different
variations of cinquain including American Cinquains, didactic cinquains, reverse cinquains,
butterfly cinquains and crown cinquains

TreeStrong,
TallSwaying,
swinging,
sighing
Memories of summerOak

Epic Poems
An epic is a long and narrative poem that normally tells a story about a hero or an
adventure. Epics can be oral stories or can be poems in written form. The Illiad and
the Odyssey are examples of famous epic poems, as is The Song of Hiawatha by Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow.

The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.

Ballad Poems
Ballad poems also tell a story, like epic poems do. However, ballad poetry is often based on
a legend or a folk tale. Ballad poems may take the form of songs and may contain a moral
or a lesson.

The Mermaid by Unknown author


Oh the ocean waves may roll,
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloft

And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below


And the land lubbers lay down below.

Name Poems
While a name verse poem can be as simple as using an adjective to describe a person that
begins with each letter of that person's name, these poems can also be far more beautiful
works of art. For example, here is a name poem for a person named Alexis:

Alexis seems quite shy and somewhat frail,


Leaning, like a tree averse to light,
Evasively away from her delight.
X-rays, though, reveal a sylvan sprite,
Intense as a bright bird behind her veil,
Singing to the moon throughout the night.
As you can see, each line of the poem begins with the letters of the name Alexis. This can
be done with any name - for example, the following name poem is a poem for a person
named Taylor:

Taylor likes each sentiment to be


Appropriate to its own time and place.
Years may roll like waves across her shore,
Leaving none of what there was before,
Obliterating every sign of grace.
Reason not, says Taylor, with the sea!

Sonnets
The poems of William Shakespeare provide excellent types of poetry examples for sonnets.

Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare


Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.

Love is not love


Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not
Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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