Poetry Deep Dive 9
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Top Read Poetry Since Deep Dive 8
Top 6 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.
- Around the Bend - NaPoWriMo 2022 by Valkyrie Long-Term Hold
- Bragi's Bagatelles by Parker Owens Complete
- A year of schoolwork: poems I submitted for a grade by MythOfHappiness Complete
- Gentle Healer by Ticklishboy30 Complete
- A Loving Memory by Ticklishboy30 Complete
- Broken Angel by Ticklishboy30 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
- Seasoned to Taste by Aditus Complete
- Terpsichore Behind the Mask by Parker Owens Complete
- Old Coats: Explorations in the Cedar Closet by Parker Owens Complete
- Haiku, Secret, and Wisdom by Headstall Complete
- Fountain, Field and Forest by Parker Owens Complete
- The Foretelling by Headstall Complete
- Breathless and Mendacity by Headstall Complete
- Seasoning of the Seasons by Valkyrie Complete
- New Deal by asamvav111 Long-Term Hold
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.
Top 1 Most Read Poetry - Confessional
Features intimate and personal revelations, often drawing on the poet's own experiences, emotions, and struggles.
- Family embrace by Jean87 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.
Top 0 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.
Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Free-Verse
poetry that follows natural speech patterns, but does not rhyme or follow a regular meter
- Headstall's Reflections by Headstall Temporary Hold
- tim's Bits and Pieces by Mikiesboy In Process
- Disasters, Delights and Other Detours by Parker Owens Complete
- timmy's poetry by Mikiesboy Complete
- Occasional Poetry by Parker Owens Complete
- Cozy Contemplations by Headstall Long-Term Hold
- Musings of a Messed Up Mind by Mikiesboy Complete
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- Moggy's Mutterings by mogwhy Complete
- Headstall's Poetry Prompts by Headstall Complete
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.
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 In Process
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- Headstall's Poetry Prompts by Headstall Complete
- Poems and Short Quips by MacGreg Long-Term Hold
- April Musings by Valkyrie Long-Term Hold
- NaPoWriMo - 2017 by Emi GS Complete
- Alex's Little Book of Poems by Alex Complete
- Kavya, My Poetry by asamvav111 Complete
- Musings of a Mongoose by Cynus Complete
- Around the Bend - NaPoWriMo 2022 by Valkyrie Long-Term Hold
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 In Process
- Timmy's Journal by Mikiesboy Complete
- Alex's Little Book of Poems by Alex Complete
- Kavya, My Poetry by asamvav111 Complete
- Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete
- JUMP! NaPoWriMo 2022 by Aditus Complete
- NaPoWriMo by Mikiesboy Complete
- My Poems, Satires & Other Lyrical Nonsense by D.K. Daniels Long-Term Hold
- Limerick's loony bin and other crazy sh% by Aditus Complete
- Bible Sex Laws - An Exploration in Limericks by Refugium 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.
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- Marvin B Erotic Poetry Collection by Marvin B Temporary Hold
- Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete
- Around the Bend - NaPoWriMo 2022 by Valkyrie Long-Term Hold
- Birds by Parker Owens Long-Term Hold
- Bragi's Bagatelles by Parker Owens Complete
- Gentle Healer by Ticklishboy30 Complete
- Snippets of Oddly Romantic Lines by Ira Temporary Hold
- Poems and Moments by Juanmdez Temporary Hold
- Broken Angel by Ticklishboy30 Complete
Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Mixed Forms
a mixture of two or more forms of poetry
- Disasters, Delights and Other Detours by Parker Owens Complete
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- Seasoned to Taste by Aditus Complete
- Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete
- Around the Bend - NaPoWriMo 2022 by Valkyrie Long-Term Hold
- Abhean's Verses by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- JUMP! NaPoWriMo 2022 by Aditus Complete
- Terpsichore Behind the Mask by Parker Owens Complete
- Calliope's Carousel by Parker Owens Complete
- Doing It Again - NaPoWriMo April 2024 by Mikiesboy 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
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- Seasoned to Taste by Aditus Complete
- Marvin B Erotic Poetry Collection by Marvin B Temporary Hold
- Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete
- Blackbird Singing by raven1 Long-Term Hold
- Birds by Parker Owens Long-Term Hold
- Treasures Found by Headstall Complete
- Searching For My New Life by raven1 Complete
- Haiku, Secret, and Wisdom by Headstall Complete
- Something in the Way by Lee Wilson Complete
Top 5 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.
- By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold
- Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete
- Around the Bend - NaPoWriMo 2022 by Valkyrie Long-Term Hold
- Delicious Delights by Aditus Complete
- Bragi's Bagatelles by Parker Owens Complete
Top 1 Most Read Poetry - Translation
a poem translated from another language
- Around the Bend - NaPoWriMo 2022 by Valkyrie Long-Term Hold
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