Up and down the deck of the cruise ship
Keeps time with the hurricane's distant swells.
Beside the swimming pool, over martinis,
Ms. Feingarten flips the pages of Redbook,

Keeps time with the hurricane's distant swells.
Dreaming of the perfect curriculum summary,
Ms. Feingarten flips the pages of Redbook,
While watching the Trinidadian saunter past.

Dreaming of the perfect curriculum summary,
Kumar sees her take a sip of the martini
While watching the Trinidadian saunter past.
He considers sitting down but there are too many chairs.

Kumar sees her take a sip of the martini
And goes to the upper lounge for afternoon tea.
He considers sitting down, but there are too many chairs.
The Romanian combo is playing Duke Ellington.
                                            --Johannes Trashbery 

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blank verse	closed heroic couplet	open heroic couplet
enjambed heroic couplets	tetrameter couplets	longer couplets
tercet	triplet	terza rima
ballad stanza, common measure	long measure	short measure
In Memoriam stanza	Rubaiyat stanza	heroic quatrains
longer quatrains rhymed abab	quatrains rhymed aabb	nonce quatrains
mad song stanza	Venus and Adonis stanza	rime royal
ottava rima	Monk's Tale stanza	Spenserian stanza
Keats ode stanza	canzone form	nonce five-line stanza
nonce six-line stanza	nonce seven-line stanza	nonce eight-line stanza

 

Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet	Shakespearean (English) sonnet	Spenserian sonnet
Miltonic sonnet	nonce 14-line sonnet	16- or 18-line sonnet
ballade	sestina	villanelle
rondeau, roundel	triolet	cinquain
haiku	tanka	pantoum
Horatian ode	Pindaric ode	homostrophic ode
irregular ode	literary madrigal	literary cantatas and hymns
clerihew	limerick	double dactyl