Poetry
Traditional Verse
Haiku
Who created it? Created by Masaoka Shiki.
When was it created? Created in the late 19th century.
Major Characteristic: It's meaning is easy to find out.
Famous author and their work: Matsuo Bashu ; Autumn Moonlight
Sonnets
Who created it? Created by Giacomo Lentini.
When was it created? Created in the 13th century in Italy.
Major Characteristic: Usually talks about love.
Famous author and their work: William Shakespear ; Sonnet 138
Ballads
Who created it? Created by the french.
When was it created? Created in the 19th century.
Major Characteristic: Ballads repeat the same words.
Famous author and their work: Ellis Parker Butler ; Ballad of Bachelor.
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Elegy
Who created it? Created by the Greeks.
When was it created? Created in the 7th century.
Major Characteristic: It is written in the 1st person point of view.
Famous author and their work: John Donne ; The Dream.
Odes
Who created it? Created by Pindar.
When was it created? Created in the 16th century.
Major Characteristic: This poem is sang or chanted.
Famous author and their work: John Keats ; To Autumn
Dramatic Monologue
Who created it? Created by Alfred Lord Ulysses.
When was it created? Created in 1842.
Major Characteristic: This poem usually talks about something sad or negative.
Famous author and their work: Robert Browing ; A Death in the Dream
Free Verse
Pastoral
Who created it? Pastoral Verse was created by Alexander Theocritus.
When was it created? It was created 3 centuries before christ.
Major Characteristic: It talks about rural life
Famous autor and their work: Jacopo Sannozaro ; De Partu Virgins
Free Verse
Who created it? Created by modernists.
When was it created? It was created in 1900.
Major Characteristic: This type of poem usually doesn't try to rhyme.
Famous author and their work: Walt Whitman ; Song of Myself.