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Other Forms of Poetry

Don’t be afraid to try something new the next time you sit down to write a poem. The forms of poetry that follow will help you get started.

Alphabet Poetry ■ A form of poetry that states a creative or humorous idea using part of the alphabet.

We

X-ray

Young

Zoo

Animals

Best to

Catch

Disease

    —Zachariah Surrency

Clerihew Poetry ■ A form of humorous or light verse created by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. A clerihew poem consists of two rhyming couplets. The name of some well-known person creates one of the rhymes.

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Brooded intently