- Ballad (n): a poem or song narrating a popular story in short stanza
: a slow sentimental or romantic song. - Bard (n): a poet, traditionally one reciting epics.
- Canto (n): each of the sections into which some long poems are divided
- Doggerel (n): comic verse composed in irregualar rhythm
: badly written verse or word - Elegy (n): a mournful poem, typically a lament for the dead.
- Epic (n): a long poem narrating the deeds of heroic or legendary figures or the past history of a nation.
- Verse (n): a group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song
- Epigram (n): a concise and witty saying or remark
: a short witty poem - Idyll (n): a short poem or prose work describing a picturesque pastoral scene or incident
: a blissful or peaceful period or situation - Lyric (n): a lyric poem or verse
: the words of a songs
(adj): (of poetry) expressing the writer’s emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.
: (of singing voice) using a light register. - Limerick (n): a humorous five-line poem with a rhyme scheme aabba.
- Ode (n): a lyric poem, typically in the form of an address, written in varied or irregular meter.
: A classical poem of a kind originally meant to be song - Prosody (n): The art of versification
: the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry and its study - Sonnet (n): a poem of fourteen lines
- Stanza (n): a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.
Verse (n): a group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
GRE VOCAB: “DIFFERENT TYPES OF POEMS and related words”
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