Small Japanese poem consisting of exactly 31 syllables. A tanka is a haiku with two further lines of seven syllables added.

A statement redundant in itself, such as "The stars, O stars, are astral bodies!"

A poem in which the last letter of each line spell out a word, phrase, or name.
See also Acrostic. (A double acrostic has the first and last letters forming new words.)

An Italian stanzaic form, used by Dante in his Divina Commedia, consisting of tercets with interwoven rhymes, aba bcb dcd efe ... and a concluding couplet rhyming with the penultimate line of the last tercet.
The original Italian form was iambic pentameter, plus one syllable. Examples in English are Sir Thomas Wyatt's "Of the Mean and the Sure Estate," Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind," and Robert Browning's "The Statue and the Bust."

This poetry form consists of at least 5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllables (total of 20).
Tetractys can be written with more than one verse, but must follow suit with an inverted syllable count. Tetractys can also bereversed and written 10, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Double Tetractys: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1
Triple Tetractys: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, and so on.

"Euclid, the mathematician of classical times, considered the number series 1, 2, 3, 4 to have mystical significance because its sum is 10, so he dignified it with a name of its own - Tetractys.
The tetractys could be Britain's answer to the 'haiku.' Its challenge is to express a complete thought, profound or
comic, witty or wise, within the narrow compass of twenty syllables."

A line of poetry consisting of four metrical 'feet'.
Shakespeare's "Fear no more the heat of the sun" is an example.

A line of poetry consisting of three metrical 'feet.'

An eight-line stanza having just two rhymes and repeating the first line as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line as the eighth. Examples are W. E. Henley's "Easy is the Triolet" and Robert Bridges' "When first we met we did not guess."

A stanza consisting of three lines.

A front stressed two-syllable meter.

Troubadours and Trouveres were lyric poets or poet-musicians of France in the 12th and 13th centuries.
'Their repertories of poetry were very self-conscious, and the discussion of technique played an important part in the poems themselves. For sheer virtuosity, the poets surpass all other lyric poets of the Middle Ages, with the possible exception of Dante. '