The remaining lines of the poem have an a-b alternating rhyme. Broadly it subsumes epic poetry, but the term narrative poetry is often reserved for smaller works, generally with more appeal to human interest. [91] Many languages and poetic forms have very specific poetic dictions, to the point where distinct grammars and dialects are used specifically for poetry. Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams are three notable poets who reject the idea that regular accentual meter is critical to English poetry.
Although a few free verse poets have excelled at light verse outside the formal verse tradition, light verse in English usually obeys at least some formal conventions. The term "elegy," which originally denoted a type of poetic meter (elegiac meter), commonly describes a poem of mourning. His life and poems have been the subject of much analysis, commentary and interpretation, influencing post-fourteenth century Persian writing more than any other author. The choriamb is derived from some ancient Greek and Latin poetry. In addition, different patterns often develop distinctively in different languages, so that, for example, iambic tetrameter in Russian will generally reflect a regularity in the use of accents to reinforce the meter, which does not occur, or occurs to a much lesser extent, in English.[60]. "[35], Prosody is the study of the meter, rhythm, and intonation of a poem. This rhyme scheme is the one used, for example, in the rubaiyat form.
[124], In khlong, a stanza (bot, บท, Thai pronunciation: [bòt]) has a number of lines (bat, บาท, Thai pronunciation: [bàːt], from Pali and Sanskrit pāda), depending on the type. The following list is a selection of the major genres of poetry. [121] Generally written in a single vertical line, the haiku contains three sections totalling 17 on (morae), structured in a 5-7-5 pattern. Some Modernist poets have made the placement of individual lines or groups of lines on the page an integral part of the poem's composition. The relatively steady meter and the use of the refrain produce an incantatory effect, which complements Sufi mystical themes well. Others, however, suggest that poetry did not necessarily predate writing. A brief tale about talking animals or objects, usually having a moral or pedagogical point, which is sometimes explicitly stated at the end. Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretations of words, or to evoke emotive responses. [111][112] One of the masters of the form was Du Fu (712–770 CE), who wrote during the Tang Dynasty (8th century). It emerged from being more than an occasional exception during the late 1970s. The one-line form is based on an analogy with the one-line vertical column in which Japanese haiku are often printed. Stress-timed languages include English, Russian and, generally, German. Notable writers of light poetry include Lewis Carroll, Ogden Nash, X. J. Kennedy, Willard R. Espy, and Wendy Cope. Yeats's "Under Ben Bulben."). But poetry remains distinguished from prose by its form; some regard for basic formal structures of poetry will be found in even the best free verse, however much such structures may appear to have been ignored. In the case of free verse, rhythm is often organized based on looser units of cadence rather than a regular meter.