Laying out the interior of a poetry book can be challenging, especially with poems that have intricate formatting with lots of indents and short stanzas. But with care and diligence, you can do the layout yourself.

What is a Villanelle? Like the classic star quilt pattern, a villanelle has a strict form, one that poets love to monkey with, but before you can mess with it, you need to understand what it is. In short, the villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with six stanzas: five tercets (three-line stanzas) and one ending quatrain (four-line stanza). The villanelle uses two refrains and a strict rhyme scheme, as described below. Villanelle Features While the form of the villanelle is quite structured, the...

The sestina is a highly complex thirty-nine line poem that uses repeating end words instead of a rhyming pattern.