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| Two-line stanza that does not exhibit terminal rhyme. |
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| Two-line stanza that exhibits terminal rhyme. |
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| A three-line stanza (rhyming schemes vary). |
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| A three-line stanza rhyming aaa. |
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| Series of concatenate stanzas of indeterminate length rhyming aba bcb cdc etc. Penultimate stanza options are xyx yzy zz or xyx yzyz. |
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| An envelope quatrain in iambic pentameter rhyming abba. |
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| An envelope quatrain in iambic tetrameter rhyming abba. |
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| abab in iambic pentameter after Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (sometimes called the Sicillian quatrain). |
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| aaxa in iambic pentameter after Fitzgerald's "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam." |
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| A five-line stanza (typically heterometric). |
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| Sestet rhyming aaabab (heterometric). |
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| Septet rhymed ababbcc (most common in midieval and early Renaisance). In iambic pentameter. |
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| Eight-line stanza in iambic pentameter rhyming abababcc. Invented by Lord Byron for Don Juan. |
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| A stanza created for a specific poem and not used again. |
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| An iambic hexameter line. |
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| Iambic tetrameter couplets. |
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| Iambic heptameter couplets. |
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| Iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcbcc with a final Alexandrine. |
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| Iambic tetrameter quatrain in abab. |
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| Also known as the "ballad stanza," which alternates lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter (commonly with an xaxa rhyme scheme). |
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| Trimeter with one random tetrameter line rhyming abab. |
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