How many poetry forms?

This is an answer I would really like to know as there are so many. Does anyone know exactly how many different types of poetry forms there are on this earth?

These are the ones that I know:- (Updated 2/8/05)

1. Ae Freislighe
2. Acrostics
3. Ballad
4. Ballade
5. Ballade Royal
6. Ballade Supreme
7. Bina
8. Blank Verse
9. Caudate Sonnet
10. Casbairdne
11. Cento
12. Chant Royal
13. Chiasmus
14. Cinquain
15. Cinq-Cinquain
16. Clarity Pyramid
17. Clerihew
18. Concrete
19. Couplet
20. Corona of Sonnets
21. Curtal Sonnet
22. Deibhidhe
23. Domino Rhyme
24. Dorsimbra
25. Double Sestina
26. Dramatic Monologue
27. Droighneach
28. Eintou
29. Englyn
30. Epistle
31. Etheree
32. Glose/Glosa
33. Grossblank
34. Kyrielle
35. Limerick
36. Little Willie
37. Lune
38. Monotetra
39. Newman Sestina
40. Nonet
41. Ode
42. Pantoum
43. Palindrome
44. Pensee
45. Pleiades
46. Quatern
47. Quatorzain
48. Rannaicheacht Ghairid
49. Rannaicheacht Mhor
50. Rictameter
51. Rimas Disolutas
52. Rionnaird Tri-Nard
53. Rondeau
54. Rondeau Redouble
55. Rondel
56. Rondel Supreme
57. Rondlet
58. Rondine
59. Roundel
60. Roundelay
61. Ruthless Rhyme
62. Scupham Sonnet
63. Seadna
64. Septet
65. Sestina
66. Shardorma
67. Sonnet
68. Tercet
67. Terza Rima
68. Tetractys
69. Triolet
70. Villancio
71. Villanelle
72. Virelai Ancein
73. Virelai Nouveau
74. Virelai Post-Moderne
75. Terzanelle
76. Wayra
77. Whitney

Asian types:-

1 Climbing Rhyme
2. Choka
3. Doditsu
4. Enthnographic Haiku
5. Ghazal
6. Haibun
7. Haiga
8. Haikai
9. Haiku
10.Interlocking Rubaiyat
11.Katauta
12.Lanturne
13.Luc Bat
14.Meta-ku
15.Mondo
16.Naga-tu
17.Pathya Vat
18.Renga
19.Rengay
20.Renku
21.Rubaiyat
22.Sedoka
23.Senryu
24.Sijo
25.Song That Luc Bat
26.Tan Renga
27.Tanka
28.Than Bauk
29.Ya-Du

Please expand the list if you have any.

Steve

Bob,

How silly of me, there are three on your list that I have actually used? What a dunce! I also forgot about: -

Palindrome
Lanturne
Than Bauk
Meta-Ku
Clarity Pyramids

I'll update the original list now.

Steve

Some more rare ones added to list above.

Steve

am i the only one who dosnt worry about form???
i just let it flow out.... i never try to follow rules... hmmmm wutever

no, i dont worry about form either, well sometimes but not all the time ♥

I don't always choose a particular form to write in and often just go with the flow.

However I do on occassion choose a particular form on purpose and make myself write a poem using that particular form. This I find actually helps me to think more and I stimulated by the forced effort.

Steve

Just some more Japanese forms for the list above:-

Mondo
Sedoka
Choka
Enthographic Haiku

Naga-tu (This one is from Vietnam, I think?)

The Irish contingent is made up of:-

Ae Freislighe
Casbairdne
Deibhidhe
Droighneach
Rannaicheacht Ghairid
Rannaicheacht Mhor
Rionnaird Tr-Nard
Seadna

Others:-
Etheree
Shardorma (Spain)

Steve

Japanese forms:

Katauta - A three lined unehymed poem with a 5-7-7 syllable count.

Sedoka - Is an unrhymed poem made up of a pair of three lined Katauta with the folloing syllable count - 5-7-7 , 5-7-7

Regards,

Steve

The clock is still ticking:

Anapest
Bouts-Rimes
Chant
Count Up
Count Down
Double Five
Ekphrastic
Free Form
Lilibonelle
Narrative
Prose Poem
Redondilla
Reduplication
Sicilian Quatrain
Tetrastich
Threnody
Trio
Waltz Wave
Zeugma

Urdu forms:_

Fard
Hamd
Hazal
Hijv
Madah
Manqabat
Marsiya
Masnavi
Munaagaat
Musaddas
Naat
Nazm
Qasida
Qawalli
Rubayi
Salaam
Seharaa
Vaasokht

Cheers!

Steve

woah...my brains starting to hurt a little from all these types of poetry....@_@ im getting a little dizzy lol

Wow, I agree with Christina. Tons of forms I see. I wouldn't have the foggiest idea of how many forms there are.

But it is great just to try and figure out how many there are. Here are 2 more:-

Binary Tree Structure
Lai

Steve

First bunch today:-

Parallelismus Membrorum
Tyburn
Awdl gwydd - Welsh
Conachloun
Rhopalic Verse

Steve

They keep coming:-

Burlesque
Canzone
Carpe Diem
Classicism
Elegy
Epic
Epithalamium
ldyll
Lay
Pastoral
Petrachan Sonnet
Poetic Precis
Romanticism

Steve

And now from Thailand we have :-

Khloong
Chan
Kaap
Klon
Raay

Steve

Entering the arena from Wales :-

Byr a thoddaid
Clogyrnach
Cyhydedd fer
Cyhydedd hir
Cyrch a chwta
Gwawdodyn
Gwawdodyn hir
Hir a thoddaid
Rhupunt
Tawddgyrch cadwynog

Awdl gywydd
Cywydd deuair fyrion
Cywydd deuair hirion
Cywydd llosgyrnog

Englyn cyrch
Englyn lleddfbroest
Englyn milwr
Englyn penfyr
Englyn proest dalgron
Englyn proset gadwynog
Englyn unodl crwca

Steve

Today's entries are :-

from China:

Jue Ju
Qi Cheng Zhuan Jie
Gu Shi
Lu Shi
Pai Lu
Shi Ju
Ba Ju
Si Ju

Others :-

Spenserian Stanza
Alexandrine
Paradelle
Dizain
Hendecasyllabic Double Rispetto
Iambic Tetrameter Sestet
Cristabel Meter
Serramilla
Adonic
Alcaics
Anacreontics
Anglo Saxon Prosody
Anustubh
Barzelletta

Steve

i am like amazed because i have no idea about 90 percent of them... i know only about the ones we learned in school and now i feel dumb. where did you learn this stuff?

and now my brain hurts

Picked up the info from books, the net, other poets who have been so kind to supply the information. I have not checked, but I think there is still a bunch that I have not updated yet?

Steve

Skeltonics
Pregunta
Capitolo
Sanskrit Didatic
Mandakranta Meter
Vakh
Anustubh
Jagati
Usnik
Birhati
Skandhodgrivi

Steve

Still more : -

Venpa
Trois-par-Huit
5x5
Naani
Retrac
Tritina
Avant-garde
Assonance
Bard
Blues
Burden
Cross Rhyme
Dirge
Ditty
Doggard
Elison
Envoy
Fable
Lampoon
Melic Verse
Serenade
Seroentine verse
Sight Rhyme
Nonce Quatrains
Aubade
Bucolic
Burn Stanza
Cenccia
Cantide
Cancione
Casbairdne
Cobla
Dansa
Ecologue
HuRoet
Mote
Twime
Waka

Steve

Wow that s alot

And to think..i've only written 3 of thoset ypes. how sad

Yes

I've seen the article by Erin, but many have not and it is well worth posting.

I started this thread but stopped after awhile as there was not a great deal of input or interest generated? I guess not so many are interested in poetry forms these days.

Aashik, I have also met Erin on Allpoetry and have read many of his works. I particularly liked his poem Anima Cantus

I have several of Erin's poetry chap books on ghazals, I am currently reading them but have not thought about trying to write one yet. May be after I have finished reading his books.

Wow, I only know four from the whole list.

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(")-(") Arrivederci!

Another one: Sardine Sonnet and Odd & Even (Odd & Even, a form which I developed).

steve since you seem ot be the most knowledgeable about the thousands of types of poems, i think you should start topics in which people can write poems in particular forms. like one for a sestina and then after a couple of days for another type, etc. i think it would be fun.

Poonam, thanks for the message, in fact there have been threads where challenges have been called for poets to write poems in various forms.

These do crop up from time to time. However more of this type of challenge now occurs within the poetry clubs - like CC&P, EOP and YOS and there are also many inter-club poetry challenges.

You may like to consider joining one of the clubs. I am a member of CC&P - Coffee, Conversation...& Poetry. Within our club we have our own poetry calendar and have earmarked two different forms which our members must write poems for each month [24 forms for 2006].

Lota things! Yay!

infinity ;) new ones are always being made.