The beauty in Poetry

So I thought maybe you would like to do a little exploration with me about a couple types of poems out there. I was in my creative writing class last night and we went over the differences in poetry. While everyone went around the room to read their sonnets that they like (mostly Shakespeare), I realize that this type of poem:

is an old fashioned way to write a poem but nothing expresses the beauty of language more than a sonnet. The flow and power is such a seduction! You don't even need to really understand what the poem is saying to truly love and appreciate it. My teacher describes it as a consideration in language, a moment or argument; a powerful feeling. The sonnet consists of 14 of Iambic Pentameter of 3 coordinate quatrains and a couplet. An example of Rhyme scheme can be

abab cdcd efef gg

"How do I Love Thee? Let me count the ways..." Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

A Haiku is a Japanese poem of only three lines, all unrhymed of five, seven and five syllables. It is form of enlightenment that focuses on a moment in nature and creating those images.

Over the wintry
forest, winds howl in rage
with no leaves to blow.

-Natsume Soseki

Free Verse poetry is a type I like as well as many modern poets today. It can consist of rhymed or unrhymed lines without a set pattern. It can lead the way for a more contemporary creative style.