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51 TYPES OF POETRY ABC

A poem that has five lines that creates a mood, picture, or feeling. Lines 1 through 4 are made up of words, phrases or clauses while the first word of each line is in alphabetical order. Line 5 is one sentence long and begins with any letter.

Example of ABC poem - author unknownA lthough things are not perfectB ecause of trial or painC ontinue in thanksgivingD o not begin to blameE ven when the times are hardF ierce winds are bound to blow

Acrostic Poetry that certain letters, usually the first in each line form a word or message

when read in a sequence. Example of Acrostic poem-author unknown

Ballad This is a poem that tells a story similar to a folk tail or legend which often has a

repeated refrain.

Example of Ballad poem:

Ballata 5 Guido Cavalcanti (1255-1300)Light do I see within my Lady’s eyesAnd loving spirits in its plenisphereWhich bear in strange delight on my heart’s careTill Joy’s awakened from that sepulchre.That which befalls me in my Lady’s presenceBars explanation intellectual.I seem to see a lady wonderfulSpring forth between her lips, one whom no senseCan fully tell the mind of, and one whenceAnother, in beauty, springeth marvelous,From whom a star goes forth and speaketh thus:"Now my salvation is gone forth from thee."There where this Lady’s loveliness appeareth,Is heard a voice which goes before her waysAnd seems to sing her name with such sweet praiseThat my mouth fears to speak what name she beareth,And my heart trembles for the grace she weareth,While far in my soul’s deep the sighs astirSpeak thus: "Look well! For if thou look on her,Then shalt thou see her virtue risen in heaven."

Ballade Poetry which has three stanzas of seven, eight or ten lines and a shorter final stanza

of four or five. All stanzas end with the same one line refrain.

Example of a Ballade

Blank verse A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter and is often unobtrusive. The

iambic pentameter form often resembles the rhythms of speech.

Example:The Fortune Teller

She reads the lines of palms for golden coins Her ears hold hoops of silver, brass and beads

That fall below her raven hair in curls And pouty lips of ruby red demand 

The patron's secrets speak in whispered words A ring of truth surrounds the lie she tells That prompts the woolen man and linen girls To seek her sultry voice that calms the heart A crystal ball, a deck of cards, her trade And gypsy eyes of blackened hues are sage At times the tale she weaves becomes a fact Despite the warning signs the wary keep 

Her fingers finely etch the promise sought By soft or calloused hands that open wide With polished nails she strokes her velvet skirt

Her dress is opulent with swirls and pleats Aromatic scents that float on streams of air Like wisps of breath in passion's dream of sighs 

Exotic candle light that softly glows Completes the mystical look promised here Her subtle movements stun and haunt the mind They hypnotize her public night and day 

While hearing echoes caused by twists with turns A lesson taught by blood and blade now passed- written by cheyennewy

Bio A poem written about one self's life, personality traits, and ambitions.

Example of a bio:

BethKind, funny, hard-working, lovingSister of AmyLover of Computers, Friends, and Harry Potter booksWho feels excited on the first day of school, sad when she watches the news, and happy to open a new bookWho needs people, books, and computersWho gives help to students, smiles to her husband, and letters to family and friendsWho fears war, hunger, and bad daysWho would like to visit the pyramids in Egypt, teach the world’s greatest third graders, and read on the beach in HawaiiResident of CaliforniaLewis

Burlesque Poetry that treats a serious subject as humor.

Example of a Burlesque Poem

  THE CANTELOPE  

ide by side in the crowded streets,     Amid its ebb and flow, We walked together one autumn morn;     ('Twas many years ago!) 

The markets blushed with fruits and flowers;     (Both Memory and Hope!) You stopped and bought me at the stall,     A spicy cantelope. 

We drained together its honeyed wine,     We cast the seeds away; I slipped and fell on the moony rinds,     And you took me home on a dray! 

The honeyed wine of your love is drained;     I limp from the fall I had; The snow-flakes muffle the empty stall,     And everything is sad. 

The sky is an inkstand, upside down,     It splashes the world with gloom; The earth is full of skeleton bones,     And the sea is a wobbling tomb! 

                                        Bayard Taylor.

Canzone Medieval Italian lyric style poetry with five or six stanzas and a shorter ending

stanza.

Example of a Canzone

His Lament for SelvaggiaCino da Pistoia (1270-1336)Ay me, alas! the beautiful bright hairThat shed reflected goldO'er the green growths on either side of the way:Ay me! the lovely look, open and fair,Which my heart’s core doth holdWith all else of that best remembered day;Ay me! the face made gayWith joy that Love confers;Ay me! that smile of hersWhere whiteness as of snow was visibleAmong the roses at all seasons red!Ay me! and this was well,O Death, to let me live when she is dead?

Carpe diem Latin expression that means 'seize the day.' Carpe diem poems have a theme of

living for today.

Example of a Carpe Diem

Gather ye rose-budsbyRobert HerrickGather ye rose-buds while ye may,Old Time is still a-flying:And this same flower that smiles to-day,To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun,The higher he's a-gettingThe sooner will his race be run,And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,When youth and blood are warmer:But being spent, the worse, and worstTimes, still succeed the former.

Then, be not coy, but use your time;And while ye may, go marry:For having lost but once your prime,You may for ever tarry.

Cinquain

Poetry with five lines. Line 1 has one word (the title). Line 2 has two words that describe the title. Line 3 has three words that tell the action. Line 4 has four words that express the feeling, and line 5 has one word which recalls the title. Example of a Cinquain

The Dark HorseBy Paul McCann Unknown .Like a black sheep.Extremely talented .Being an outsider alone. Wise one.

Classicism Poetry which holds the principles and ideals of beauty that is characteristic of Greek

and Roman art, architecture, and literature.

Example of Classicism Types - Excerpt

The poem is an example of a genre represented in Latin by Ovid's Heroides.Eloisa to AbelardbyAlexander PopeIn these deep solitudes and awful cells,Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells,And ever-musing melancholy reigns;What means this tumult in a vestal's veins?Why rove my thoughts beyond this last retreat?Why feels my heart its long-forgotten heat?

Couplet A couplet has rhyming stanzas made up of two lines.

Example of a Couplet"True wit is nature to advantage distressedWhat oft was thought/but ne'er so well expressed." -Eve King

Dramatic monologue A type of poem which is spoken to a listener. The speaker addresses a specific topic

while the listener unwittingly reveals details about him/herself. Example of a monologue

HAMLETA monologue from the play by William ShakespeareHAMLET: To be, or not to be--that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortuneOr to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--No more--and by a sleep to say we endThe heartache, and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummationDevoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep--To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause. There's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life.For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumelyThe pangs of despised love, the law's delay,The insolence of office, and the spurnsThat patient merit of th' unworthy takes,When he himself might his quietus makeWith a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,To grunt and sweat under a weary life,But that the dread of something after death,The undiscovered country, from whose bournNo traveller returns, puzzles the will,And makes us rather bear those ills we haveThan fly to others that we know not of?Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,And thus the native hue of resolutionIs sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,And enterprise of great pitch and momentWith this regard their currents turn awryAnd lose the name of action. -- Soft you now,The fair Ophelia! -- Nymph, in thy orisonsBe all my sins remembered.

Elegy A sad and thoughtful poem about the death of an individual.

Example of an Elegy

Chidioch Tichborne (1558-1586)On September the nineteenth 1586 in London TowerWhen the bloom of his young life was decaying like a flowerDying in the cool winds of the early FallIn words his tragic life he did recall.

Chidioch Tichborne to something beautiful to gave lifeIn his farewell elegy to Agnes his wifeAn elegy still read and popular todayTrue greatness can be slow for to meet decay.

Accused as being in a failed plot to murder Elizabeth England's QueenHis best days as a poet he had not seenHung drawn and quartered a brutal way to die

Such a death to justice surely gives the lie.

Executed in his twenty eight year even in those times that was youngBut he did not remain as one unsungHis gift of life may have been snatched from him in his primeBut his life story and his elegy have withstood the test of time. 

Epic An extensive, serious poem that tells the story about a heroic figure.

Example of Epic Poems - ExcerptHiawatha's Departurefrom The Song of HiawathabyHenry Wadsworth LongfellowBy the shore of Gitchie Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.

Epigram A very short, ironic and witty poem usually written as a brief couplet or quatrain.

The term is derived from the Greek epigramma meaning inscription.

Example of EpigramA Lame Begger byJohn DonneI am unable, yonder beggar cries, To stand, or move; if he say true, he lies.

Epitaph A commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument written to praise

the deceased.

Example of a Humorous Epitaph !I was bornThen I wedNagging WifeNow I'm dead!

Epithalamium (Epithalamion) A poem written in honor of the bride and groom.

An example of an Epithalamium.A Slice of Wedding CakebyRobert Graves

Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girlsMarried impossible men?Simple self-sacrifice may be ruled out,And missionary endeavour, nine times out of ten.

Repeat 'impossible men': not merely rustic,Foul-tempered or depraved(Dramatic foils chosen to show the worldHow well women behave, and always have behaved).

Impossible men: idle, illiterate,Self-pitying, dirty, sly,For whose appearance even in City parksExcuses must be made to casual passers-by.

Has God's supply of tolerable husbandsFallen, in fact, so low?Or do I always over-value womanAt the expense of man?Do I?It might be so.

Free verse (vers libre) Poetry written in either rhyme or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical

pattern.

Example of a Free Verse PoemSong of MyselfbyWalt WhitmanI celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loaf and invite my soul,I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

Ghazal A short lyrical poem that arose in Urdu. It is between 5 and 15 couplets long. Each

couplet contains its own poetic thought but is linked in rhyme that is established in the first couplet and continued in the second line of each pair. The lines of each couplet are equal in length. Themes are usually connected to love and romance. The closing signature often includes the poet's name or allusion to it. Example of a Ghazal

Ghazal by Gene DotyThe silver maple's new green holds weariness:under the redbud, in clean dirt, only weariness.Closing the window against thunder-laden air,I see through the screen a passerby's weariness.

Qoheleth in his bitter book complains against the windand finds in all that's seen or heard endless weariness.Come, wife, and settle your head on my shoulder;on the pillows we lean and seek to dispell our weariness.Gino, why did you write these tiresome lines? Don't you know that verses only mean weariness? Haiku

A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, usually about some form of nature. Examples of haiku poems:Falling to the ground,I watch a leaf settle downIn a bed of brown.

A cricket disturbedThe sleeping child; on the porchA man smoked and smiled.

I'm turning overLook out and give me room thereYou cricket, you.

OdeOdes are long poems which are serious in nature and written to a set structure. John

Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode To A Nightingale" are probably the most famous examples of this type of poem. 

Example of an Ode - ExcerptOde To A NightingalebyJohn KeatsMy heart aches, and a drowsy numbness painsMy sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,Or emptied some dull opiate to the drainsOne minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:

Iambic pentameter One short syllable followed by one long one five sets in a row. Example: la-LAH

Example of Iambic pentameter Literary Term - ExcerptParadise LostbyJohn MiltonChapter 1 - Book 1

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruitOf that forbidden tree whose mortal tasteBrought death into the World, and all our woe,

With loss of Eden, till one greater ManRestore us, and regain the blissful seat,Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret topOf Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspireThat shepherd who first taught the chosen seedIn the beginning how the heavens and earthRose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hillDelight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowedFast by the oracle of God, I thenceInvoke thy aid to my adventurous song,That with no middle flight intends to soar Idyll (Idyll)

Poetry that either depicts a peaceful, idealized country scene or a long poem telling a story about heroes of a bye gone age.

Example of Idyll Poetry TypesUlyssesbyAlfred, Lord TennysonIt little profits that an idle king,By this still hearth, among these barren crags,Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race,That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

HokkuHokku (発句 lit. "starting verse"?) is the opening stanza of a Japanese orthodox

collaborative linked poem, renga, or of its later derivative, renku (haikai no renga). From the time of Matsuo Bashō(1644–1694), the hokku began to appear as an independent poem, and was also incorporated in haibun (in combination with prose), and haiga (in combination with a painting). In the late 19th century, Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), renamed the stand-alone hokku to haiku,[1] and the latter term is now generally applied retrospectively to all hokku appearing independently of renku or renga, irrespective of when they were written, although this approach has been challenged. The term 'hokku' continues to be used in its original sense, as the opening verse of a linked poem.

Example of an hokkuWinterLet myself go to bed; New Year's Day is only a matter for tomorrow.Camphor tree roots are quietly getting wet, in the winter rainy air.A handsaw is sounding, as if from a poor one, at midnight in this winter.Old man's love affair; in trying to forget it, a winter rainfall.In an old pond, 

a straw sandal is sinking -- it is sleeting. 

Italian sonnet A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern Ababa followed by six lines

with a rhyme pattern of cdecde or cdcdcd.

Italian SonnetTurn back the heart you've turned awayGive back your kissing breathLeave not my love as you have leftThe broken hearts of yesterdayBut wait, be still, don't lose this wayAffection now, for what you guessMay be something more, could be lessAccept my love, live for today.

Your roses wilted, as love spurnedYet trust in me, my love and truthDwell in my heart, from which you've turnedMy strength as great as yours aloof.It is in fear you turn awayAnd miss the chance of love today!

Lay A long narrative poem, especially one that was sung by medieval minstrels.

Example of Lay Poetry Types - ExcerptThe Lay of the Last MinstrelbySir Walter ScottThe way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His wither'd cheek, and tresses gray, Seem'd to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy

Limerick A short sometimes vulgar, humorous poem consisting of five anapestic lines. Lines 1,

2, and 5 have seven to ten syllables, rhyme and have the same verbal rhythm. The 3rd and 4th lines have five to seven syllables, rhyme and have the same rhythm.

Example of Limericks

Limerick from the Book of NonsensebyEdward LearThere was an Old Man with a gong,Who bumped at it all day long;But they called out, 'O law!You're a horrid old bore!'So they smashed that Old Man with a gong.

List A poem that is made up of a list of items or events. It can be any length and rhymed

or unrhymed.

Lyric A poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet.

Example of a Lyric PoemDyingbyEmily DickinsonI heard a fly buzz when I died;The stillness round my formWas like the stillness in the airBetween the heaves of storm.

The eyes beside had wrung them dry,And breaths were gathering sureFor that last onset, when the kingBe witnessed in his power.

I willed my keepsakes, signed awayWhat portion of me ICould make assignable,-and thenThere interposed a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,Between the light and me;And then the windows failed, and thenI could not see to see.

Memoriam stanza A quatrain in iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abba -- named after the

pattern used by Lord Tennyson.

Name Poetry that tells about the word. It uses the letters of the word for the first letter of

each line.

Example of Name PoemNickybyMarie HughesNicky is a NurseIt's her chosen careerChildren or Old folksKindness in abundanceYear after year

Narrative A poem that tells a story.

Example of a Narrative Poem

John BarleycornbyRobert BurnsThere was three kings into the east, Three kings both great and high, And they hae sworn a solemn oath John Barleycorn should die. They took a plough and plough'd him down, Put clods upon his head, And they hae sworn a solemn oath John Barleycorn was dead. But the cheerful Spring came kindly on, And show'rs began to fall; John Barleycorn got up again, And sore surpris'd them all. The sultry suns of Summer came, And he grew thick and strong, His head weel arm'd wi' pointed spears, That no one should him wrong. The sober Autumn enter'd mild, When he grew wan and pale; His bending joints and drooping head Show'd he began to fail. His coulour sicken'd more and more, He faded into age; And then his enemies began To show their deadly rage. They've taen a weapon, long and sharp, And cut him by the knee; Then ty'd him fast upon a cart, 

Like a rogue for forgerie. They laid him down upon his back, And cudgell'd him full sore; They hung him up before the storm, And turn'd him o'er and o'er. They filled up a darksome pit With water to the brim, They heaved in John Barleycorn, There let him sink or swim. They laid him out upon the floor, To work him farther woe, And still, as signs of life appear'd, They toss'd him to and fro. They wasted, o'er a scorching flame, The marrow of his bones; But a Miller us'd him worst of all, For he crush'd him between two stones. And they hae taen his very heart's blood, And drank it round and round; And still the more and more they drank, Their joy did more abound. John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise. 'Twill make a man forget his woe; 'Twill heighten all his joy: 'Twill make the widow's heart to sing, Tho' the tear were in her eye. Then let us toast John Barleycorn, Each man a glass in hand; And may his great posterity Ne'er fail in old Scotland!

Pastoral A poem that depicts rural life in a peaceful, romanticized way.

Example of Pastoral Poetry Type - ExcerptThe Passionate Shepherd to His LovebyChristopher MarloweCome live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield. There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, 

By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.

Petrarchan A 14-line sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba followed by a sestet of

cddcee or cdecde

Pindaric ode A ceremonious poem consisting of a strophe (two or more lines repeated as a unit)

followed by a an antistrophe with the same metrical pattern and concluding with a summary line (an epode) in a different meter. Named after Pindar, a Greek professional lyrist of the 5th century B.C.

Quatrain A stanza or poem consisting of four lines. Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme while having a

similar number of syllables. Example of Quatrain Poetry TypeThe TygerbyWilliam BlakeTyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?

Rhyme A rhyming poem has the repetition of the same or similar sounds of two or more

words, often at the end of the line.

Example of a well known Nursery RhymeHumpty Dumpty sat on a wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the King's horses, And all the King's menCouldn't put Humpty together again!

Rhyme royal A type of poetry consisting of stanzas having seven lines in iambic pentameter.

Example of Rhyme Royal TypeThey Flee from Me That Sometime Did Me SeekbySir Thomas WyattThey flee from me that sometime did me seekWith naked foot stalking in my chamber.I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,That now are wild, and do not remember

Romanticism A poem about nature and love while having emphasis on the personal experience.

Example of Romanticism - ExcerptThe QuestionbyPercy Bysshe ShelleyI dreamed that, as I wandered by the way,Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring,And gentle odours led my steps astray,Mixed with a sound of waters murmuring

Rondeau A lyrical poem of French origin having 10 or 13 lines with two rhymes and with the

opening phrase repeated twice as the refrain.

Senryu A short Japanese style poem, similar to haiku in structure that treats human beings

rather than nature: Often in a humorous or satiric way.

Example of Senryu Poetry Type The robber, If I catch, My own son

Example 2Hide and seek Count to three Winter comes

Sestina A poem consisting of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy. The end words of

the first stanza are repeated in varied order as end words in the other stanzas and also recur in the envoy.

Shakespearean A 14-line sonnet consisting of three quatrains of abab cdcd efef followed by a

couplet, gg. Shakespearean sonnets generally use iambic pentameter.

Shape Poetry written in the shape or form of an object.

Sonnet A lyric poem that consists of 14 lines which usually have one or more conventional

rhyme schemes. Example of A Sonnet

By The Creek By Paul McCann

I escaped down to the creek today .I lost my way and wished you would comeI sat down on the grass in the sun,In the silence I began to pray .In the water some stepping stones laywhere my reflections just had begun .Your presence I felt had overcome,I was not lost and alone that day .I walked away and stood on a stone .In the water I saw the blue sky.You came to me in a quiet place.In reflective prayer I'm not alonewith the sound of water flowing by,on stepping stones I walk in Gods grace

Tanka

A Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the other seven.

Example of A Tanka

Beautiful mountainsRivers with cold, cold water.White cold snow on rocksTrees over the place with frostWhite sparkly snow everywhere.

Terza Rima

A type of poetry consisting of 10 or 11 syllable lines arranged in three-line tercets.

Ode to the West WindbyPercy Bysshe Shelley

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves deadAre driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,Pestilence-stricken multitudes: 0 thou,Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed

The wingèd seeds, where they lie cold and low,Each like a corpse within its grave,untilThine azure sister of the Spring shall blow

Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)With living hues and odours plain and hill:

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!

Verse

A single metrical line of poetry.

Example of Verse - ExcerptDaffodilsby William WordsworthI wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Villanelle

A 19-line poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes. The first and third lines of the first tercet repeat alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.

 

Analogy Poetry Type

An Analogy is a likeness or similarity between things (a subject and an analog) that are otherwise unlike. Analogy is the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. Example of Analogy Poetry TypeNothing Gold Can Stay byRobert FrostNature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.

Refrain Poetry TermThe word 'Refrain'  derives from the Old French word refraindre meaning to repeat.

Refrain Poetry Term is a phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem, usually after each stanza. A famous example of a refrain are the words  " Nothing More" and “Nevermore” which are repeated in “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe.

Example of Refrain Poetry Type - ExcerptThe RavenbyEdgar Allan PoeAnd the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted nevermore.

EnjambmentThe word Enjambment comes from the French word for "to straddle". Enjambment

is the continuation of a sentence form one line or couplet into the next. An example by Joyce Kilmer 1886–1918 in his poem "Trees" is:  I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a treeExample of EnjambmentTreesbyJoyce KilmerI think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. 

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth's flowing breast; 

A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; 

A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; 

Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. 

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.