Listed styles of poetry defined:

Acrostic

- a verse or arrangement of words in which certain letters in each linem such as the first or last, when taken in order spell out a word, motto etc.

Elegy

- any poem in a mournfully contemplative tone

Heroic Couplet

 - rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines

Limerick

- a nonsense poem of five anapestic lines

Sonnet

- a poem normally of fourteen lines in any of several fixed verse and rhyme schemes, typically in rhymed iambic pentameter.

Quattrain

- a stanza or poem of four lines, often rhyming.

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