Free Verse has no identifiable meter, although the lines may have a rhyme-scheme. . . . Heroic Couplet is two lines of rhyming iambic pentameters. . . . Lyric is a poem of emotional intensity and expresses powerful feelings. Parody is a humorous imitation of a serious poem. Quatrain is a four-line stanza with various meters and rhyme schemes.
Sonnet is a fourteen line poem.
The Spenserian sonnet, developed by Edmund Spenser, has three quatrains and a heroic couplet, in iambic pentameter with rhymes ababbcbccdcdee. The English sonnet , developed by Shakespeare, has three quatrains and a heroic couplet, in iambic pentameter with rhymes ababcdcdefefgg. A Handbook of Terms for Discussing Poetry Rusche, Harry, Ed. A Handbook of Terms for Discussing Poetry . 19 April 1997.