What are the different types of poems apart from a sonnet?
There are different types of verse forms based on meter and rhyme. Rhymed verse consists of verse with end rhyme and usually with a regular meter. Blank verse consists of lines of iambic pentameter without end rhyme. Free verse consists of lines that do not have a regular meter and do not contain rhyme. The types of poems include some of the following: Heroic couplet sometimes called a closed couplet consists of two successive rhyming verses that contain a complete thought within the two lines. It usually consists of iambic pentameter lines. Terza rima is a three line stanza form with an interlaced or interwoven rhyme scheme: aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc. It is usually imabic pentameter. Haiku is a three line verse, no rhyming, with syllables of 5 – 7 – 5 on each line. Limerick is a five line nonsense poem with an anapestic meter. The rhyme scheme is usually aabba. The first, second, and fifth lines have three stresses; and the third and the fourth have two stresses. Ballad Stanza consists
