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Language Arts Final
types of poems
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Literature
8th Grade
05/11/2009

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Couplet
Definition
a style of poetry defined as a complete thought written in two lines with rhyming ends
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Narrative
Definition
a poem that tells a story; it can come in many forms and styles, both complex and simple, short or long
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Quatrain
Definition
a stanza or poem of four lines
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Haiku
Definition
a Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed, lines of five, seven and five syllables usually concerning nature
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Light verse
Definition
the general term for various kinds of verse that have no serious purpose and no solemnity of tone
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Free verse
Definition
arranged in lines, may be more or less rhythmical, but has no fixed metrical pattern or expectation
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