What are the genres of English poetry?

Sonnet (1. Sonnet), a short lyric poem from the Middle Ages, was popular in Italy in 13 and 14 centuries, with Petrarch of Italy as the representative figure, with eleven syllables in each line, eight lines in one section and six lines in the other, and abba, abba, cdcdcd(cdecde) as the rhyme. The first eight lines ask questions and the last six lines answer them.

Later, Thomas Wyatt (1503- 1542) introduced sonnets into England, and the pentameter was cadenced.

Case, the whole poem has three or four lines and one or two lines, the first three sections ask questions, and the last two sentences summarize. Spencer (Edmund

Spenser, 1552- 1599) uses the rhymes abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee. Shakespeare (William

Shakespeare, 1564- 16 16) uses the rhymes abab, cdcd, dfdf, gg, which is called English or Shakespeare.

2. limerick: usually a small joke, or even a story. Generally, there is no title or author's name. It contains humor and satire, and often uses puns, internal rhymes and other techniques. Each poem has five lines, and the rhyme is aabba, and the meter is mainly iambic and iambic.

There was a young black lady.

She smiled while riding a tiger;

They rode back.

The lady is inside,

And the smile on the tiger's face.

2) tutor who teaches flute.

Trying to teach two pipers to play the flute,

"Is it difficult to play the flute, or

Two men said to the tutor,

Teach two pipers to play the flute. "

3. blank verse: iambic pentameter verse without rhyme.

Through the watery bales, and shout:

Answering his call, trembling bells,

Long cheers, screams, loud echoes.

Double and double: crazy convergence

The noise of joy! …

William wordsworth: There is a boy.

4. Free verse: a common style in modern poetry. Poems of different lengths exist in the same poem, and they don't pay attention to rhyme and meter, but only pay attention to the images and emotions expressed in the poem. American poet Walter? 6? 1 Whitman's Leaves of Grass adopted this format.