Haiku is short form of Japanese Poetry. This text is too long to be a Haiku. A ballad is typically arranged in quatrains and also, usually narrative. An Ode is a lyrical stanza which is usually written as a praise to someone or something. An elegy is a form of poem that is written in elegiac couplets. This is a sonnet with follows the structure of an Italian sonnet, apparently: "<em>a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns"</em>
