Prompt 7 of 7
Name a type of poem
78 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Skeltonic verse— Invented by Henry VIII's tutor; critics called it doggerel to his face.
85 ptsDeep Cut45 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Abecedarian
- Ars poetica
- Aubade— A dawn poem, the morning-after answer to the serenade.
- Ballade
- Cento
- Chant royal
- Clerihew
- Decima
- Diamante
- Dirge
- Doha
- Eclogue
- Ekphrastic
- Epistolary poem
- Epithalamium
- Etheree
- Fib
- Found poem
- Golden shovel
- Haibun
- Idyll
- Kenning poem
- Kyrielle
- List poem
- Mock epic
- Monorhyme
- Nonet
- Nonsense verse
- Ottava rima
- Palindrome poem
- Pantoum
- Persona poem
- Psalm
- Renga
- Rhyme royal
- Riddle poem
- Rondeau
- Rondel
- Rubaiyat
- Sapphic
- Senryu
- Sijo
- Spenserian stanza
- Terza rima
- Triolet
60 ptsRare16 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Blackout poetry
- Blank verse
- Cinquain
- Concrete poem
- Couplet
- Doggerel
- Dramatic monologue
- Epigram
- Epitaph
- Ghazal
- Hymn
- Light verse
- Pastoral poem
- Prose poem
- Quatrain
- Tanka
30 ptsSchooler11 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Acrostic
- Ballad
- Elegy
- Epic
- Free verse
- Lyric poem
- Narrative poem
- Nursery rhyme
- Ode
- Slam poetry
- Spoken word
15 ptsToo Clever2 answers
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Sestina— Thirty-nine lines cycling the same six end-words.
- Villanelle— Nineteen lines, two refrains, and 'Do not go gentle' forever.
10 ptsPlankton3 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Haiku
- Limerick
- Sonnet