1. Poetic Form
Couplets: There are very few poems that consist of only a couplet; couplet examples, however, abound. Many poems use couplets as their base form.
Couplet Examples: "The Tyger" by William Blake; Shakespearean Sonnets contain couplet examples.
Analysis: In Blake's "The Tyger," the successive couplet examples produce a sing-song rhythm, similar to nursery rhymes. Shakespeare finishes his sonnets with a couplet, providing a solution to the problem posed in the first 12 lines.

2. (Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene i)
Blank Verse consists of unrhymed iambic pentameter--a stanza that contains lines, 10 syllables in length, with a pattern of unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllables.
Example: You blocks! You stones! You worse than senseless things!
(Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene i)

3. Sonnets, fourteen line poems written in iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme (unlike blank verse).
“Pentameter” derives from the Greek word pente (meaning five), and thus has five poetic "feet." Each foot is a unit of two syllables; thus, there are ten syllables in a line of pentameter.
“Iambic” means that each foot is an “iamb.” Iambs are comprised of an unstressed, followed by a stressed syllable, resulting in a “ta-TUM” rhythm. The word “hel-LO” is an example of an iambic foot.
So a line of iambic pentameter is a line of five iambic feet, resulting in a 10-syllable rhythm of ta-TUM ta-TUM ta-TUM ta-TUM ta-TUM
Shall I compare the to a summer’s day

4. Poetic Vocabulary
Alliteration Allusion Apostrophe Assonance Consonance Hyperbole Imagery Internal rhyme Metaphor Oxymoron Personification Simile Symbolism

5. Odes
An ode is a long serious lyric poem that is elevated in tone and style.
An ode focuses in on one person, event, power, or object.
Almost all involve apostrophe, addressing an absent person or a personified animal, inanimate object or idea.
Horatian odes have a regular stanza pattern and rhyme scheme.
Style: basically the way you write, as opposed to what you write about (though the two things are definitely linked). It results from things like word choice, tone, and syntax. It's the voice readers "hear" when they read your work.