of the bride and bridegroom. Ecopoetry Ekphrasis: a poem that vividly describes a scene or work of art. Elliptical Epigram Folk Folk ballad Gnomic: a poems laced with proverbs, aphorisms, or maxims. Hymn: a poem praising God or the divine (often sung). Lament: any poem expressing deep grief, usually at a death or some other loss. Dirge Elegy: a poem of lament, praise, and consolation, usually formal and sustained, over the death of a particular person. Example: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray. Light: whimsical poems Limerick Nonsense Double dactyl Lyric Canzone: a lyric poem originating in medieval Italy and France and usually consisting of hendecasyllabic lines with end-rhyme. Epithalamium Madrigal: a song or short lyric poem intended for multiple singers. Ode: a formal lyric poem that addresses, and typically celebrates, a person, place, thing, or idea. Horatian Ode Palinode: an ode that retracts or recants what the poet wrote in a previous poem. Pindaric Ode Sapphic ode Stev: a form of Norwegian folk song consisting of quatrain lyric stanzas. Meditative Narrative Ballad: a popular narrative song passed down orally. In English, it typically follows a form of rhymed ("abcb") quatrains alternating 4-stress and 3-stress lines. Folk ballad: unknown origin, recounting tragic, comic, or heroic stories with emphasis on a central dramatic event. Examples: "Barbara Allen" and "John Henry" Literary ballad: poems adapting the conventions of folk ballads, beginning in the Renaissance. Examples: “La Belle Dame sans Merci” by John Keats and “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe. Epic (or epos): an extended narrative poem, typically expressing heroic themes. Mock-epic: a poem that plays with the conventions of the epic to comment on a topic satirically. Epyllion: a brief narrative work written in dactylic hexameter, commonly dealing with mythological themes and characterized by vivid description and allusion. Romance Occasional: a poem written to describe or comment on a particular event. Panegyric: a poem of great praise. Pastoral Eclogue: a pastoral poem usually containing dialogue between shepherds. Georgic Recusatio: a poem (or part thereof) in which the poet claim that they are supposedly unable or disinclined to write the type of poem that they originally intended to, and instead writes in a different style. Movements Avant-garde Flarf Futurist Language Beat: A movement that arose from San Francisco’s literary counterculture in the 1950s. Its poetry is primarily free verse, often surrealistic, and influenced by the cadences of jazz music.