What are the forms of English poetry

Most of the metrical poems in many European languages, including English, originated in Italy, and the sonnet is undoubtedly the best known of these. Originally a "stanza" (an identically formatted passage that makes up a longer poem), the sonnet was used early on in Italy, France, and England to write stand-alone lyric poems. A strict sonnet consists of an eight-line stanza and a six-line stanza, each in iambic pentameter. It is important to note that English poetry also learned from Italy a type of stanza called "terza rima", with 12 lines per stanza, which was used in Dante's Divine Comedy. The main part of Shelley's five Ode to the West Winds is also written in this kind of stanza, and then ends with a couplet, making each poem 14 lines long. The rhyme scheme for a three-verse poem is "aba bcb cdc ded", which is the case in the first of Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind", and the reader can easily see that it is a three-verse poem with a "roundabout", which is derived sequentially from each other, and that there is a "roundabout" between the lines. and there is a relationship of sequential derivation. Because of the alternation of different sounds, the whole stanza reads as regular and varied, not stilted.

The couplet that ends each poem (or chapter) seems to be a "summary" of the poem in meaning, and it is also a self-contained unit in meter. The couplet is the simplest stanza, consisting only of two lines with the same or similar end rhymes, and does not usually stand alone. Of the famous English poets, probably only Alexander Pope (1688-1744) in the 18th century wrote such a "couplet" of only two lines, which is so concise that it is often quoted as a "cautionary tale".

The Italian sonnet is divided into two stanzas, eight and then six. The first eight lines rhyme with abba, abba, and the last six lines have two variations, cdecde,

or cdccdc. The ninth line does not only change the rhyme scheme, but often has a different title or feel.