Three types of poetry

Don't want to write the same thing as the author before you? Check out these three types of poems that you probably haven't heard of yet.


1 The Waka-Similar to the Haiku, but instead it has a few more lines. The syllable count goes 5-7-5-7-7. Like a Haiku, the lines don't rhyme. The Waka originated in Japan thousands of years ago. (Specific type of Waka concerned-Tanka)

Example:

     To live is to break

      by

      Ueda Miyoji

To live is to break 

One's heart for the sake of love; 

A couple of doves, 

Beaks touching on their way, 

Are stepping out in the sun.

2 Blank Verse-Blank Verse is poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse is often unobtrusive and the iambic pentameter form often resembles the rhythms of ordinary speech.
Example:

   The Ball Poem

    by

    John Berryman

What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,

What, what is he to do? I saw it go

Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then

Merrily over-there it is in the water!

3 Cacophony- The word cacophony originates from the Greek word meaning "bad sound". The term in poetry refers to using words with hard to pronounce, discordant, clashing, hissing sounds, though not all types of this type of poetry sound bad in any way.
Example: 

     Jabberwocky

      by

      Lewis Carroll

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; 

All mimsy were the borogoves, 

And the mome raths outgrabe.

Source: Types of Poetry