All poems belong to one sort of literature - to lyrics. And here lyric genres there is a set. Each of them has distinctive features by which it is easily possible to determine a poem genre.
Instruction
1. If the poem is written in ennobled to force, in it acts of any person become famous or the greatness of the country, then it either the ode, or the anthem is sung. It is possible to distinguish them the fact that the anthem is a genre song, as a rule, as the text meets seldom. Besides, anthems are usually not turned to the specific personality. At odes there is more sublime and outdated vocabulary, it is very old, still a classical genre. Anthems are relevant and now.
2. Lack of strict composition (there is no division into stanzas), thoughtful character of the narration, grief, viscosity - all this signs of the elegy. In elegies very important author's ""I"" therefore the narration often goes from the first person.
3. Their Europe to us such genre as the sonnet came. It is possible to determine the sonnet by a form. Traditionally it consists of fourteen lines grouped in a special way. Three types of sonnets are allocated: French (abba abba ccd eed (or ccd ede)), Italian (abab abab cdc dcd (or cde cde)), English sonnet (abab cdcd efef gg).
4. If you see the short poem (no more than two quatrains, as a rule) in which some person, then before you an epigram genre is witty derided. Important leaving epigrams is a comedy. Sometimes it happens kind humour, and at times - evil satire.
5. If the poetic work which you see has a plot and large volume, then it is the ballad. In ballads there is always a main character around whom events develop. The events described in ballads are always unusual, in them there are magic elements, action is very dramatic. Initially ballads were a song genre therefore it is possible to distinguish them also on a melodic rhythm. In the center of the ballad some conflict always lies, the main heroes of a raznopolyarna, some represent the party of good, and others - the evils.