Shadow Poetry is a writers' support site whose goal it is to help poets improve their writing skills and increase their knowledge of poetry forms.
In glossary format, Poets.org defines thirty poetic forms from "abecedarian" to "villanelle," but doesn't stop there.
"You can write poetry!" exclaims Marsha Rogers, and her thirty daily lessons (with titles such as "Month Metaphor" and "Diamonte") will show you how.
Kathi Mitchell, a language arts teacher from New Hampshire, shares a list of nineteen poetic forms for elementary students.
From "accent" to "verse," Infoplease defines nearly a hundred poetry terms and forms.
Poetic form refers to rules followed by different types of poems. The rules may describe the rhythm of the poem, the length of a poem, its rhyming scheme, the use of alliteration, or the poem's shape on a page. Don't know your cento from your cinquain?
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