Poems or acrostics {abecedarius} can use alphabet.
Poem letters or lines can make patterns {acrostic}|.
Poetry {anacreonic poetry} can be about wine and women.
Poets can make poetic protests {complaint, poetry} to unresponsive opposite-sex people.
Poems {concrete poem} can describe images or shapes.
Poems {ditty} can be short informal humorous songs.
Humorous poems {doggerel} can use rhymed lines with odd stresses and irregular metrics.
Poem lines can form shape {emblematic poetry}.
Folk poems {flyting} can alternate abusive comments from two characters.
Lyrics {Goliardic verse} can be about wine and women in made-up Latin.
Mock-heroic poetry can use iambic-tetrameter couplets {Hudibrastic couplet}.
Poems {light verse} can be playful, comic, absurd, sophisticated, or witty, or have complicated rhyme scheme.
Humorous poems {limerick}| can use rhyme scheme AABBA, with third and fourth lines shorter than the others.
Light verse {nonsense verse} can use absurd words or ideas.
Poems {shape poem} can have different-length lines that form shapes.
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