Epic: a story talk about a  hero but tell in a funny way, This poem is usually a long and descriptive one which tells a story, an epic usually tells about a hero, using elegant language.

Example: Beowulf

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Narratives:

Definition

Narratives are poems that tell stories. Narrative poems include plots, characters, settings, themes...

Example

Thanksgiving is in the tears

That burst like ripe grapes.

Proclaiming, see you next year,

We wave, begin to panic.

With these tears, the further we go

The tighter we are entwined.

We hold onto each others image,

Hold each other way-deep

As the bus pulls us apart,

Stretching our gratitude for miles.

Ballad:

Ballads are songs or songlike poems that tell stories. These stories often talk about death, betrayal or love. Ballads usually have a regular, steady rhythm, and use simple language. Ballads also have refrains which are repeated words, phrases, or a group of lines.

Example

Light do I see within my Lady’s eyes

And loving spirits in its plenisphere

Which bear in strange delight on my heart’s care

Till Joy’s awakened from that sepulchre.

That which befalls me in my Lady’s presence

Bars explanation intellectual.

I seem to see a lady wonderful

Spring forth between her lips, one whom no sense

Can fully tell the mind of, and one whence

Another, in beauty, springeth marvelous,

From whom a star goes forth and speaketh thus:

"Now my salvation is gone forth from thee."

There where this Lady’s loveliness appeareth,

Is heard a voice which goes before her ways

And seems to sing her name with such sweet praise

That my mouth fears to speak what name she beareth,

And my heart trembles for the grace she weareth,

While far in my soul’s deep the sighs astir

Speak thus: "Look well! For if thou look on her,

Then shalt thou see her virtue risen in heaven."

Lyric : poem that could be sung into music. Lyric does not tell a story but it expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. Example : Dying I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm. Sonnets : a poem that has 14 lines that expresses the poet in thoughts, ideas, and sentiments. Example : FROM fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. Odes : poem to praise or thanks someone or something. Example : Ode to Cheese

Ode To Cheese,
Which Makes Us Smile,
When Camera's go Clack.
Ode To Cheese,
Which make us taste,
The greatest of flavors, the wackiest of whack.
Ode To Cheese,
Blue, Gorgonzola,
American and Cheddar.
Ode To Cheese,
Beja and Feta,
In all types of weather.
Ode To Cheese,
For those on a diet,
or trying to get fatter.
Ode To Cheese,
with crackers and wine,
with grapes can flatter.
Ode To Cheese,
when you're sad and happy,
Cheese just fits.
Ode To Cheese,
Mountains and Mountains,
or bits and bits.

Ode to the Cheese,
To appreciate,
eat,
and take pictures. 

Free Verse : poem that its verses do not follow in fixed pattern.
Example :
Connotation


Friends
Means sharing, bittersweet
A brand name of love. It is a tie for all time,
Longer than the shadows we forget
Yet shorter and better than life, or for some longer,
Stronger. It balances you, with a pole in
One hand and a rope in the other, you choose what to use it for.
It is forever.

Friends
Remembers everything anyone ever felt,
Holds it in a cubbyhole somewhere for next time
When it is spoken or thought, from kindergarten
Elation to maturing despair. No friend is ever
Alone in action or reaction, left
Without a silent commiserating presence of
Invisible brick, a personal wailing wall
For those who need its strength
And stability.

Friends
Is a loaded word and pointed. It limbos out from
Under walls, vaults barricades, threads mazes
To erect cellophane boundaries of its own.
It lets you see what could lie beyond
But that you gave up
When you spoke its name.


Significance : It's important to get to know all of the types of poems because we get to see how different they are. We don't learn everything at the same time but little bit by little. Therefore, learning these types of poem could pretty much help us in the future if the category is about poetry. Although poems are not always the same but they all express feelings of the poets.