Various forms of Poetry

1. Epic: The word 'epic' has originated from Latin word 'epices' and from Greece 'epic' which means a song. An epic is a long poetic composition usually centred upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style. For example, Homer's Iliad is an epic poem.
2. Lyric Poetry: A lyric is a short poem about a feeling, an emotion or usually about love. It is no longer that fifty or sixty lines.
3. Balllad: A ballad is a form of verse adopted for singing and recitation, which presents a dramatic or exciting episdode in simple narrative poem.
4. Ode: An ode is a poem, originally to be sung but now a grand lyric poem often in praise of someone or something. Odes are highly subjective in content of being more often an externalization of poets' internal feelings. It was stablished by Pindal in Greece and by Horace in Rome.
5. Elegy: An elegy is a mournful, melandcholic or plaintive poem, specially a funeral song or lament for the dead.
6. A Sonnet: A sonnet is a fixed form of a lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines.
7. Free Verse: Free verse is a form of poetry that refrain from consistent mter patterns, rhymes or any other musical patterns.
8. Blank Verse: A blank verse is a poetry written with unryhmed patterns. For example: Paradise Lost by John Milton is a blank verse.
9. Shape poem or concrete poem: A shape poem takes the shape of the object it describes. It is more for the eyes than for the brain or emotions.
10. Imagist Poetry (Haiku): An imagist poetry or Haiku is a three line poetry that originated in Japan.