A brief pastoral poem, set in an idyllic rural place but discussing urban, court, political, or social issues.
Bucolics and idylls, like eclogues, are pastoral poems in non-dramatic form.
Examples are Alexander Barclay's "Eclogues,"
Edmund Spenser's "Shepherds Calendar,"
Jonathan Swift's "A Town Eclogue," and Andrew Marvell's "Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn."

Such poem employ a mournful or elegiac tone to lament the dead: "In Memoriam" by Tennyson and "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" by Auden.

The omission of a final vowel in order to run two words together (e.g. th' only for the only), or vowel, consonnant or syllable within a word - ne'r for never. These omissions were used in order to achieve a desired meter or for smoothness of sound.

Enjambment comes from the French word for "to straddle." The continuation of a complete idea (a sentence or clause) from one line or couplet of a poem to the next line or couplet without a pause. An example of enjambment can be found in the first line of Joyce Kilmer's poem Trees:
"I think that I shall never see/A poem as lovely as a tree."

It is either a poem of farewell, or a conventional final short stanza - often bidding farewell, and perhaps including a dedication of sort.

A long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure. Two of the most famous epic poems are the "Iliad and the Odyssey" by Homer, which tell about the Trojan War and the adventures of Odysseus on his voyage home after the war.

A very short, witty poem:
"Sir, I admit your general rule,/That every poet is a fool,/But you yourself may serve to show it,/That every fool is not a poet." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most common forms are written as a couplet —
a pair of rhymed lines in the same meter such as:

"The heart is the only workman
we cannot excuse."
- Emily Dickinson

A quotation of motto at the beginning of a literary work or of a section.

A verse which imitates the form of a personal letter, addressed to someone in particular, often very personal and occasional, and sometimes dated, with a location affixed —Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" and Robert Burns'
" Epistle to J. Lapraik"

A short poem written to be carved on a gravestone.

Lyric poem in praise of Hymen (the Greek god of marriage) or of a particular wedding, such as Edmund Spenser's "Epithalamion."