Non-prose forms include a wide variety of poetry. There are
several different types of sonnets, the most famous type of sonnet
having been ones written in iambic pentameter, which is the type of
sonnet that Shakespeare wrote most often. There are various types
of meters used in poetry; some rhyme, and some do not. There are 32
different types of poetic forms, of which the sonnet is probably
the most famous, but there are several other types of poetry: the
haiku, the halibun, the ghazal, the villanelle, the found poem, the
epistle, the triolet, the epigram, the terza rima, the epic poem,
the tank, the elegy, the ekphrasis, the sestina, the Sapphic, the
dramatic monologue, the cinquain, the renga, the rondeau, chance
operations, the pastoral, the cento, the prose poem, the blues
poem, the bop, the ballade, the pantoum, the OULIPO, the ballad,
the anaphora, the ode, the limerick, and the abecedarian.