1. Free Verse - the poet does not follow the conventions of any meter or rhyme.

2. Haiku - a 3 line poem generally where first and last lines have 5 syllables, and the middle has seven syllables.

3. Sonnet - the most popular tends to be the English or Shakespearean sonnet. It is a 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter. The poem will end in a rhyming couplet. There is also the Italian or Petrarchan sonnet.

4. Blank Verse - a poem written in Iambic pentameter but it does not rhyme.

5. Limerick - a 5 line poem that follows a strict meter and always has a AABBA rhyme scheme.

6. Tanka - has 5,7,5,7,7 for it’s lines (= a Haiku with 2 seven syllable lines added on to the end).

7. Cinquain - a 5 line poem that follows a rhyme scheme of ababb, abaab or abccb.

8. Sestina - a six stanza of six lines each with a triplet at the end. Each stanza has the same 6 words at the end of each line of the poem. So basically the words that end the lines fo the first stanza are rotated over and over again at the end of the lines of the next stanza.

9. Villanelle - a 19 line poem that has five 3 line stanzas. The first line of the poem and the last line of the first stanza becomes refrains again and again until the last stanza. Basically, line 1, 3 become beginning and ending lines of all the other stanzas.

Refrain 1 (A¹)

Line 2 (b)

Refrain 2 (A²)

Line 4 (a)

Line 5 (b)

Refrain 1 (A¹)

Line 7 (a)

Line 8 (b)

Refrain 2 (A²)

Line 10 (a)

Line 11 (b)

Refrain 1 (A¹)

Line 13 (a)

Line 14 (b)

Refrain 2 (A²)

Line 16 (a)

Line 17 (b)

Refrain 1 (A¹)

Refrain 2 (A²)

10. Acrostic - a simple poetry form that uses the up and down letters of a poem to spell a word or phrase. So the first letter of each line could be pulled out to spell a word.

https://www.everywritersresource.com/top-10-types-of-poems-or-forms-or-formats/