Medieval poetry

Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri

thumb|Calligraphic rendition of a ''ruba'i'' attributed to Omar Khayyam from Bodleian MS. Ouseley 140 (one of the sources of FitzGerald's [[Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam).]]

Georgia's national epic poem

thumb| Dobrynya Nikitich rescues Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon Gorynych, by [[Ivan Bilibin (1941)]]

body of Indic literature

chant or hymn sung or recited during the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist

earliest Old French poem

poem

form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device

Neo-Latin epic poem

Knittelvers (also Knüttelvers or Knittel) is a kind of Germanic verse meter which originated in Germany during the Middle Ages. In Knittelvers, consecutive lines rhyme pairwise (AABB) and each line has four stresses. "Strict" Knittelvers has eight or nine syllables on each line, whereas "free" Knittelvers can use more or fewer. It may be considered a form of doggerel and is sometimes called "Knüttelvers" () because of its rhythm. In German, this form of poetry was popular during the 15th and 16th centuries but rejected in the 17th before being brought back into use by Johann Christoph Gottsche

lyric poems by Dante Alighieri

meaningful opinions put into verse to aid the memory

historic poetry contests

Kāvya (Devanagari: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá) was the Sanskrit literary style used by Indian court poets flourishing between c. 200 BCE and 1200 CE.

poem written by anonymous

The Boecis (original name: Lo poema de Boecis, , ; "The poem of Boethius") is an anonymous fragment written around the year 1000 CE in the Limousin dialect of Old Occitan, currently spoken only in southern France. Of the hundreds or possibly thousands of original lines, only 257 are now known.

forms of poetry, genre lyric and epic in the medieval era

literary genre particularly widespread during the Middle Ages

Ferskeytt (literally 'four-cornered') is an Icelandic stanzaic poetic form. It is a kind of quatrain, and probably first attested in fourteenth-century rímur such as Ólafs ríma Haraldssonar. It remains one of the dominant metrical forms in Icelandic versifying to this day.