- Lyric poems are short, personal poems that express the poet's emotions or thoughts.
- Narrative poems tell a story, often in a traditional verse form.
- Dramatic poems are written in the form of a play and are meant to be performed.
- Free verse poems do not have a regular rhythm or rhyme scheme.
- Haiku are short, unrhymed poems that originated in Japan.
- Sonnets are 14-line poems with a specific rhyme scheme.
- Villanelles are 19-line poems with a repeating refrain.
- Epics are long narrative poems that tell the story of a hero's journey.
- Elegies are poems that mourn the death of a loved one.
- Odes are poems that praise a person, place, or thing.
- Satires are poems that use humor or irony to criticize a person, place, or thing.
- Hymns are religious poems that are sung in worship.
- Limericks are humorous poems that have a specific rhyme scheme.
- Nonsense poems are poems that do not make sense on the surface, but may still be enjoyable to read.