n. 25B6; noun
Elizabethan verse : POETRY, versification; poems, lyrics; poetic/literary poesy. See lists.
a verse he'd composed to mark my anniversary : POEM, rhyme, ditty.
a poem with sixty verses : STANZA, canto, couplet; strophe.
prose.
Verse Forms
See also poem . macaronics ( or macaronic verse)
alcaics ( or alcaic verse) madrigal
alexandrine verse monody
alliterative verse ode
Anacreontics ottava rima
ballad pantoum/pantun
ballade Petrarchan sonnet
blank verse Pindaric
Clerihew quatorzain
dactylics ( or dactylic verse) rhyme royal
doggerel ritornello
dramatic monologue rondeau
echo verse roundel
elegy sapphics
epic secondary epic
epigram sequidilla
epode sestina
epopee sonnet
fixed form Spenserian stanza
free verse tail rhyme
haiku tanka
heroic verse terza rima
Horatian ode triolet
iambics ( or iambic verse) triplet
Leonines trochaics ( or trochaic verse)
limerick villanelle
lyric virelay
Metres and Metrical Feet
alexandrine heroic couplet
amphibrach hexameter
amphimacer iamb/iambus
anapaest/anapest iambic pentameter
choree ionic
choriamb/choriambus monometer
cretic octameter
dactyl paeon
decasyllable pentameter
dimeter pyrrhic
dipody spondee
distich tetrameter
disyllable tribrach
duple metre trimeter
elegiac couplet trisyllable
elegiac distich trochee
heptameter