Blank Verse-unrhymed iambic pentameter-often resembles the rhythms of ordinary speech-Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verseAn example:The Ball PoembyJohn Berryman
What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,What, what is he to do? I saw it goMerrily bouncing, down the street, and thenMerrily over-there it is in the water!
Epigram
-very short, satirical and witty poem
-brief couplet or quatrain
-derived from the Greek word 'epigramma' meaning inscription
-cultivated in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by poets like Ben Jonson and John Donne who wrote twenty-one English epigrams
An example:
A Lame Begger by John Donne
I am unable, yonder beggar cries,
To stand, or move; if he say true, he lies
Romanticism
-nature and love were a major themes
-favoured by 18th and 19th century poets
-emphasis in such poetry is placed on the personal experiences of the individual.
An example:
The Question by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way,
Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring,
And gentle odours led my steps astray,
Mixed with a sound of waters murmuring
