Writer’s Digest: List of 50 Poetic Forms for Poets.
They’re all fun. My advice ... try something new when you’re really creatively stuck. And be sure to write ‘em down and save ‘em. What you hate today, you may find you love tomorrow. They’re all worthy.
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Wonderful.
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One additional form: The old viking sagas didn’t rhyme; they alliterated. Each couplet would have the same initial consonant twice on the first line and 3 times on the second line. That, and the peculiarly roundabout use of metaphor (e.g. “crow-food” for “soldier”) makes for a kind of poetry that we really haven’t seen much in English since Shakespeare.