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Structure: No set structure, Rhyme Scheme: None, Example: Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass'.

Structure: Two lines, Rhyme Scheme: AA, Example: Alexander Pope's 'Heroic Couplets' from 'An Essay on Man'.

Structure: Three lines, Rhyme Scheme: ABA, Example: Dante's 'The Inferno' contains tercets.

Structure: 5 lines, Rhyme Scheme: Variable, often ababb, Example: Adelaide Crapsey's 'November Night'.

Structure: 15 lines, Rhyme Scheme: AABBA AABC AABBAC, Example: Charles d'Orleans's 'Le temps a laissé son manteau'.

Structure: 14 lines, Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC CDCD EE, Example: Edmund Spenser's 'Amoretti'.

Structure: Visual arrangement communicates beyond words, Rhyme Scheme: Not applicable, Example: George Herbert's 'Easter Wings'.

Structure: 5 lines, Rhyme Scheme: AABBA, Example: Edward Lear's 'There was an Old Man with a beard'.

Structure: 5 to 15 couplets, Rhyme Scheme: AA BA CA, Example: Agha Shahid Ali's 'Even the Rain'.

Structure: Variable, Rhyme Scheme: Variable, Example: W.H. Auden's 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats'.

Structure: Terza rima is written in tercets, Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB CDC DED ..., Example: Dante Alighieri's 'The Divine Comedy'.

Structure: 39 lines, Rhyme Scheme: None, but features repeated end words, Example: Elizabeth Bishop's 'Sestina'.

Structure: Four lines, Rhyme Scheme: AABB, ABAB, or ABBA, Example: Robert Frost's 'Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening' contains quatrains.

Structure: Three-line stanza or poem, Rhyme Scheme: AAA, Example: Examples are commonly found in ancient and medieval poetry.

Structure: Any number of lines, Rhyme Scheme: AAAA..., Example: W.H. Auden's 'As I Walked Out One Evening'.

Structure: Variable, Rhyme Scheme: Variable, Example: Virgil's 'Eclogues'.

Structure: Five 11-line stanzas followed by a 5-line envoi, Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEDF (stanzas), CCDDF (envoi), Example: Yvor Winters's 'A Chant Royal'.

Structure: Short, witty, and pointed statement, often in couplet or quatrain form, Rhyme Scheme: Variable, often AABB or ABAB, Example: Oscar Wilde was known for his epigrams.

Structure: 14 lines, Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG for Shakespearean, ABBA ABBA CDE CDE for Petrarchan, Example: Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 18'.

Structure: 3 lines, Rhyme Scheme: None, Example: Matsuo Basho's 'An old silent pond'.

Structure: Any number of quatrains, Rhyme Scheme: ABAB, Example: John Ashbery's 'Pantoum'.

Structure: Often used for long poems, no fixed stanza length, Rhyme Scheme: None, Example: William Shakespeare's plays are often in blank verse.

Structure: 19 lines, Rhyme Scheme: ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA, Example: Dylan Thomas's 'Do not go gentle into that good night'.

Structure: Quatrains, Rhyme Scheme: ABAB or AABB, Example: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'.

Structure: Variable, Rhyme Scheme: None or variable, Example: Lewis Carroll's 'Acrostic' poem for the name Alice Pleasance Liddell.

Structure: 5 lines, Rhyme Scheme: None, Example: Ishikawa Takuboku's 'Sad Toys'.

Structure: Quatrains, Rhyme Scheme: AabB, ccbB, ddbB, etc., Example: Traditional French Kyrielles.

Structure: Variable, often three parts: strophe, antistrophe, and epode, Rhyme Scheme: Variable, Example: John Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale'.

Structure: Lengthy narrative, Rhyme Scheme: Variable, often blank verse, Example: Homer's 'The Odyssey'.