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Form/structure – appearance and sound

Form or structure is a poem’s appearance and how it sounds.

Form is the structure, or pattern, of a poem, including the length of the lines, their rhythms, the rhyming system (if any) and the division of the lines into stanzas or verses.

Form or structure is a poem’s appearance and how it sounds

Formula (form) 1 racing cars certainly look good (appearance).

Mnemonic to remind you of sound

Formula (form) 1 racing cars are certainly noisy (sound).

Mnemonic to remind you of poetry structure

They can go over any structure.

Examples of different forms of poetry include:

Ballad

Epitaph

Acrostic

Free verse

Haiku

Limerick

Tanka

Kennings

Enjambment

Lyric

Ode

Blank verse

Epic

Lay poetry

Pastoral

Rhymes

Prose

Allegory

Epigram

Narrative

Sonnets

Sensory

Cinquain

Concrete

ABC

Diamante

Elegy

Canzone

Eulogy

Rap

Quatrain

Sonnet

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