1. The Confessional Poems
Confessional poetry is an intensely emotional, direct approach to autobiographical content in which the poet removes the mask of impersonality and candidly discusses a personal event or issue.
2. Socio-Political Poems
This poem is powerful in its political message and its use of figurative language to convey this message
3. Free Verse
Simply put, free verse is poetry that does not have regular, patterned rhythm and meter.
4. Sonnet
A Sonnet is a fourteen-line poem. The sonnet follows two basic patterns. The English or Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains and a couplet with the rhyme scheme abab-cdcd-efef-gg. Traditional English sonnets are written in iambic pentameter, which has five feet of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. An Italian or Petrarchan sonnet has an octave, or eight-line stanza, followed by a sestet or a six-line stanza. The first octave asks a question and the sestet provides the answer.
5. Villanelles
A villanelle is a fixed-form that rhymes and repeats lines in a predetermined patter. It is typically 19 lines and is comprised of six stanzas: five tercets, three-lined stanzas, and a final quatrain. The first and third lines of the first stanza alternate as the last line of the next four stanzas and then form the final couplet in the quatrain.
6. Dramatic Monologues
