Acrostic
An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet.
Ballad
A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
Blank Verse
A verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameters.
Cinquain
A cinquain poem is a verse of five lines that do not rhyme.
Couplet
A pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length.
Free Verse
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm.
Haiku
A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
Limerick
A humorous five-line poem with a rhyme scheme aabba.
Ode
A lyric poem, typically one in the form of an address to a particular subject, written in varied or irregular metre.
Pantoume
A Malay verse form, also imitated in French and English, with a rhyme scheme abab.
Shape Poem
A shape poem is a type of poetry that describes an object and is shaped the same as the object the poem is describing.