Poems that are more strict in its form.

Ode,
sonnet, blank verse, ballad, monologues have
formal elements that poets follow.

For example, the sonnet is a 14-line poem in

iambic pentameter with a set rhyme scheme.

an English poet,
playwright, and actor,
widely regarded as the
greatest writer in the
English language and
the world's pre-eminent
dramatist.

He wrote at a time of
religious flux and
political upheaval, and
is best known for his
epic poem Paradise
Lost (1667), written in
blank verse.

He is best known for his

satirical verse, as well
as for his translation of
Homer.

was a major English

Romantic poet known
for his work The
Prelude.

"Faith" is a fine invention

When Gentlemen can see
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.

difficult to define as it is a plane that is

being built while in flight.

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my childrens lives
may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great
heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.