Poetic Forms Crossword

This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Poetry has 24 clues. Answers range from 3 to 12 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.

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Two lines of poetry that go together that usually rhyme
If you add a third line to couplet
Most Common Stanza in poetry - made of four lines
Originated in Japan 800 years ago - rhyme scheme is 5-7-5
Haiku with attitude - usually about human nature
5 line cousin to the haiku - accented syllables in each line are 2-3-2-3-3
Five line funny poem
14 line poem - Italian and Shakespearean
includes 5 tercets followed by a quatrain. The most challenging poem to write.
Has its roots in Africa - three or six line stanzas. Also called "field Hollers"
Includes a lot of details about what the poet has noticed
Originally and oral form of poetry to tell a story about legends, love, or tragedy.
Poems that often appear on headstones
Somber, mournful poem usually about the death of an important person
Poems where the first letter of the first word in each line must vertically create a new word
Also called shape poems.
Poem that pokes fun at a celebrity
This poem takes it's name from the latin word that means "five"
Poem written from the POV of the poem's subject
A poem of celebration of a person, place, or thing
A humorous one-sentence poem spread out over two quatrains with two dactyls in most lines
A poem that has a rhyme scheme of abab bab ababa and lines 4 and 11 use the same words or phrase.
A poem that has eight lines but repeats the same line three times
Indirectly describes a person, place, or thing to see if the reader can guess it

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