| alcaics (or alcaic verse) | alexandrine verse |
| alliterative verse | Anacreontics |
| ballad | ballade |
| blank verse | clerihew |
| dactylics (or dactylic verse) | doggerel |
| dramatic monologue | echo verse |
| elegy | epic |
| epigram | epode |
| epopee | fixed form |
| free verse | haiku |
| heroic verse | Horatian ode |
| iambics (or iambic verse) | Leonines |
| limerick | lyric |
| macaronics (or macaronic verse) | madrigal |
| monody | ode |
| ottava rima | pantoum/pantun |
| Petrarchan sonnet | Pindaric |
| quatorzain | rhyme royal |
| ritornello | rondeau |
| roundel | sapphics |
| secondary epic | sequidilla |
| sestina | sonnet |
| Spenserian stanza | tail rhyme |
| tanka | terza rima |
| triolet | triplet |
| trochaics (or trochaic verse) | villanelle |
| virelay |