Poetry Deep Dive 3

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Entry posted by Myr in Genre Deep Dives July 2

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Top Read Poems by sub-genre since Mar 2024.

Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Ballad

a poem that tells a story and was traditionally set to music. Usually follows a form of rhymed (abcb) quatrains alternating four-stress and three-stress lines.

Lyrics for Tony - a collection of poems by AC Benus Complete
a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Complete
Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Temporary Hold
1940, 1970 and Today – plus other poems by AC Benus Complete
Love Looked at Me and Laughed and other poems by AC Benus Complete
Second Sight: Remembering Some San Francisco Neighborhoods by AC Benus Complete
June, 2020 – Hell in a Handbasket by AC Benus Temporary Hold
A year of schoolwork: poems I submitted for a grade by MythOfHappiness Complete
Bragi's Bagatelles by Parker Owens Complete
Song of the '70s by AC Benus Complete

Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Blank Verse

a poem with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter.

By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Temporary Hold
1940, 1970 and Today – plus other poems by AC Benus Complete
Hymenaios, or the Marriage of the God of Marriage by AC Benus Complete
Seasoned to Taste by Aditus Complete
Second Sight: Remembering Some San Francisco Neighborhoods by AC Benus Complete
Terpsichore Behind the Mask by Parker Owens Complete
The Foretelling by Headstall Complete
Haiku, Secret, and Wisdom by Headstall Complete
Breathless and Mendacity by Headstall Complete

Top 0 Most Read Poetry - Cinquain

a short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables. Cinquains may be paired and manipulated to create longer forms. For example, the mirror cinquain has lines of syllables 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, 2, 8, 6, 4, 2. Cinquains are often used in teaching schoolchildren early forms of poetry.

No stories

Top 1 Most Read Poetry - Confessional

Features intimate and personal revelations, often drawing on the poet's own experiences, emotions, and struggles.

The Walled Garden of Enchantment by AC Benus Complete

Top 0 Most Read Poetry - Ekphrastic Poetry

Responds to or describes a work of visual art, capturing the essence of a painting, sculpture, or other visual medium through words.

No stories

Top 5 Most Read Poetry - Epic Poetry

a lengthy narrative poem, typically set in the far past, involving heroic and extraordinary adventures and dealings of people with gods or other superhuman forces.

Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Temporary Hold
Pride Month, and other Haibun by AC Benus Temporary Hold
The Walled Garden of Enchantment by AC Benus Complete
Lorca's "Ode to Walt Whitman" by AC Benus Complete
Lorca’s "Love from the Darkness Sonnets" by AC Benus Temporary Hold

Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Free-Verse

poetry that follows natural speech patterns, but does not rhyme or follow a regular meter

Lyrics for Tony - a collection of poems by AC Benus Complete
tim's Bits and Pieces by Mikiesboy Temporary Hold
Headstall's Reflections by Headstall Temporary Hold
Occasional Poetry by Parker Owens Complete
timmy's poetry by Mikiesboy Complete
The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss by AC Benus In Process
Disasters, Delights and Other Detours by Parker Owens Complete
Cozy Contemplations by Headstall Long-Term Hold
One Hundred and Fifty-Five Sonnets by AC Benus Complete
Musings of a Messed Up Mind by Mikiesboy Long-Term Hold

Top 0 Most Read Poetry - Ghazal

A poetic form with rhyming couplets and a repeating refrain, often exploring themes of love, loss, and longing. It has its roots in Arabic and Persian poetry.

No stories

Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Haiku

a short poem of three lines with five, seven, and five syllables respectively. While there are several schools of Haiku writing, the most faithful to the original will use some aspect of the natural world as its subject, and will not contain any personal references to the writer/observer.

tim's Bits and Pieces by Mikiesboy Temporary Hold
By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
Headstall's Poetry Prompts by Headstall Complete
NaPoWriMo - 2017 by Emi GS Complete
Poems and Short Quips by MacGreg Long-Term Hold
April Musings by Valkyrie Long-Term Hold
My Twentieth Year by AC Benus Complete
Musings of a Mongoose by Cynus Complete
NaPoWriMo-2016 by Emi GS Complete
A Man in a Room, and other poems by AC Benus Complete

Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Limerick

a poem that is typically humorous and bawdy, written in five-line, predominantly anapestic trimeter with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA, in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme, while the third and fourth lines are shorter and share a different rhyme.

tim's Bits and Pieces by Mikiesboy Temporary Hold
Timmy's Journal by Mikiesboy Complete
Kavya, My Poetry by asamvav111 Complete
Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete
JUMP! NaPoWriMo 2022 by Aditus Complete
Alex's Little Book of Poems by Alex Complete
Limerick's loony bin and other crazy sh% by Aditus Complete
My Poems, Satires & Other Lyrical Nonsense by D.K. Daniels Long-Term Hold
Bible Sex Laws - An Exploration in Limericks by Refugium Complete
Ode to a Perfect Willy by Riley Jericho Complete

Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Lyric

a poem that expresses personal feelings or emotions, typically written in first person. There are several general groupings of lyric poetry, including elegies, odes and sonnets.

Lyrics for Tony - a collection of poems by AC Benus Complete
By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
Light & Dragonflies: Nature Poems/Love Poems by AC Benus Complete
a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Complete
A Man in a Room, and other poems by AC Benus Complete
1940, 1970 and Today – plus other poems by AC Benus Complete
Love Looked at Me and Laughed and other poems by AC Benus Complete
Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete
Birds by Parker Owens Long-Term Hold
June, 2020 – Hell in a Handbasket by AC Benus Temporary Hold

Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Mixed Forms

a mixture of two or more forms of poetry

Lyrics for Tony - a collection of poems by AC Benus Complete
The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry by AC Benus In Process
The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss by AC Benus In Process
Translation Trashbin by AC Benus In Process
Disasters, Delights and Other Detours by Parker Owens Complete
By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
The Thousandth Regiment by AC Benus Complete
Light & Dragonflies: Nature Poems/Love Poems by AC Benus Complete
Doing It Again - NaPoWriMo April 2024 by Mikiesboy Complete
Calliope's Carousel by Parker Owens Complete

Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Rhyming

a poem containing two or more words that repeat the same or similar sounds in the final syllable, usually placed at the end of lines placed so they echo each other

Lyrics for Tony - a collection of poems by AC Benus Complete
By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Complete
A Man in a Room, and other poems by AC Benus Complete
Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Temporary Hold
Seasons Of The Son by Lee Wilson Complete
1940, 1970 and Today – plus other poems by AC Benus Complete
Seasoned to Taste by Aditus Complete
Love Looked at Me and Laughed and other poems by AC Benus Complete
Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete

Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Sonnet

a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, typically containing ten syllables per line, traditionally using iambic pentameter. A sonnet must contain a turning point (or, volta), in which the thread of the theme changes direction. There are three main sorts of sonnet: Italian (or, Petrarchan), Shakesperean, and Spenserian; each of these has a different rhyme scheme. The Italian rhymes ABBAABBA CDCDCD or ABBAABBA CDECDE; the Shakespearean uses ABAB CDCD EFEF GG; the Spenserian ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.