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Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metered verse. Narrative poems do not need rhyme. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be complex.

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17-syllable Japanese poem born from the splitting of the haikai, of which only the initial three verses (5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively) were preserved.

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a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture.

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a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear.

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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

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A sonnet is a one-stanza, 14-line poem, written in iambic pentameter. The sonnet, which derived from the Italian word sonetto, meaning “a little sound or song," is "a popular classical form that has compelled poets for centuries," says Poets.org. The most common—and simplest—type is known as the English or Shakespearean sonnet, but there are several other types.