The third unit, the stanza , consists of a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout the poem. The process of measuring verse is referred to as scansion . Ballade is French in origin and made up of 28 lines, usually three stanzas of 8 lines and a concluding stanza, called envoy, of 4 lines. The last line of each stanza is the same and the scheme is ababbcbc and the envoy's is bcbc. Blank Verse is made up of unrhymed iambic pentameter lines.
Elegy is a lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead.
Epigram is a brief, pointed, and witty poem of no prescribed form. Free Verse has no identifiable meter, although the lines may have a rhyme-scheme. Heroic Couplet is two lines of rhyming iambic pentameters. Possible source of origin is Limerick, Ireland. Lyric is a poem of emotional intensity and expresses powerful feelings.