Learn About 11 Interesting Poetry Forms

In David's continuing quest to enlighten and educate his readership, he today provides information and examples that illustrate eleven fun poetry forms. Information about the poetry forms is from shadowpoetry.com.   

To illustrate the forms, I use the same common and simple verse as an example for each, so that the instructions are as accessible and clear as possible.
 

Acrostic Poem

(where the first letter of each line spells a word)

For Gene, who made the machine, it was a blow
And Joe who made it go, felt some woe
Resulting from Art's part in what came to pass:
The machine's choking end from poison gas.

Ballad

(a short narrative poem with stanzas of two or four lines and usually a refrain)

The Balled of Gene's Machine

Refrain:
Oh Gene, he worked so long
To build his brave machine
And Joe, he made it go
And brought a smile to Gene.

(I)
One day into their town,
Came Art, a steamy lad.
Unbeknownst to Gene and Joe,
His arrival boded bad.

(II) 
A machine's but wires and cogs
And assorted other parts.
It will last for years and years,
Lest exposed to young men's farts. 

(III)
The story's widely known
How Art wrecked Gene's machine.
But what's never been made plain
Is how he also wrecked his jeans.

Cinquain

(a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines)

Machine
Young Gene made it
Joe set it in motion
Art passed gas to blow it apart
That stinks

Epitaph

(a brief poem inscribed on a tombstone praising a deceased person, usually with rhyming lines)

Here lies Genes' machine.
Without brain, nor lung, nor heart.
Yet brought to life by Joe,
And destroyed by passing Art.

Haiku

(a Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables)

Soul of nuts and bolts
Made to go by Gene and Joe
Blown apart by Art

Lanturne

(a five-line verse shaped like a Japanese lantern with a syllabic pattern of 1-2-3-4-1)

Gene's

machine.

Joe pushed go.

Art's fart made it

stop.

Limerick

(a rhymed humorous or nonsense poem of five lines and a set rhyme scheme and syllable structure)

Gene designed a machine from some parts
His friend Joe was the guy who pushed 'start' 
Art, a sometimes third pal
Wasn't feeling so well
And blew Gene's work apart with his farts.

Monorhyme 

(a poem in which all the lines have the same end rhyme)

A guy named Eugene
Built  himself a machine.
His friend Joe joined the scene,
To hit the 'start' on its screen.
It roared to life nice and clean,
With a glowing proud sheen.

Art, also there, but unseen,
With distress in his spleen,
Caused by one extra bean,
In his Southwest cuisine,
Made a fart most obscene,
That best fit a latrine.

One can't intervene,
Once parts start to careen,
Here, there, and between,
Like a child on caffeine.
So soon naught stood where there'd been
The device so pristine.

(So said the news magazine)

Nonet

(has nine lines. The first line has 9 syllables, the second line 8 syllables, the third line 7 syllables, etc...)

Young Gene made a really nice machine
Friend Joe spent time to make it go
Art flatulated with zest
Thus rendering Gene's work
Out of commission
Until such time
Gene can fix
It all
Up.

Palindrome Poetry

(a poem that reads the same forward or backward)

Art
Is farting
Thus blowing machines
Blowing thus,
Farting is
Art

Tyburn

(a 6 line poem consisting of 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 9 syllables. The first 4 lines rhyme and are all descriptive words. The last 2 lines rhyme and incorporate the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th lines as the 5th through 8th syllables)

Glowing
Flowing
Knowing
Blowing
Gene devises glowing, flowing part.
Art breaks without knowing, blowing fart.