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When it comes to poetry, there is an almost endless number of different types of poems. Many of these different poetic forms depend on the length of each verse, the rhyme and even the shape of the poem. There are even variations specific to some languages.

With this much choice, there is a form of poetry for everyone. Whether you want to expand your horizon by reading some new poems or you want to experiment with a new writing style, here is a guide to 29 different types of poetry.

The Main Types of Poetry

If you love structure in your writing, then there are plenty of different kinds of poems to choose from. Some have a more rigid poetic form, while others are free-flowing and experimental.

You will probably recognise some of these well-known types of poetry from your time at school. However, some of these are often not mentioned because they appear to be too niche. Saying this, they are still worth mentioning and you might even find that poems which break the rules appeal to you much more than the poems that use specific shapes and stanzas.

Enjoy exploring these forms of traditional and contemporary poetry.

1. Haiku

Until a few years ago, haikus were largely unknown outside of their native Japan but they have grown hugely in popularity. That’s because they are o

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This post is written by Zach Czaia, a poet and high school English teacher working in Minneapolis, MN. His second poetry collection, Knucklehead, was published in 2021 with Nodin Press. Check out his Substack, “Teacher / Poet” here.

The longer I teach English literature, the more convinced I am that to do justice both to the subject I teach and the students I am responsible for guiding, we need to write in the forms we are studying. Or to adapt a phrase from Alfie Kohn, I want the students I teach to learn literature “from the inside out.” That is, if students are, as they were in the unit I’m sharing here, studying and analyzing forms of poetry like the sonnet, the ode, the abecedarian, and the ‘list poem,’ then they also ought to have a sense for what it feels like to create those very same forms. I believe this makes for learning that extends beyond our classrooms, and into the world. 

This particular version of the Poetry Portfolio assignment owes a big debt to three outstanding English Language Arts teachers and thinkers: Melissa Alter Smith & Lindsay Illich (of course!) and Tom Romano. So many of the prompts that inspired the poems in the portfolios I’ll be sharing are directly from the bookmarked, dog-e