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Kinds of Poem is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on naming a poem's form from its features, aligned to Common Core standard RL.4.5. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Kinds of Poem

RL.4.5

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1.Read: "Moon / over the roofs, / over the sleeping street, / opens one silver eye." It has no rhyme and no regular beat. What form is it?
  • A.couplet
  • B.limerick
  • C.free verse
2.A funny poem of five lines, where lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme, is a...
  • A.limerick
  • B.free verse poem
  • C.haiku
3.Two lines next to each other that rhyme and belong together are called a...
  • A.haiku
  • B.chapter
  • C.couplet
4.A poem of three lines with 5, 7 and 5 syllables, often about nature, is a...
  • A.narrative poem
  • B.limerick
  • C.haiku
5.Read: "There once was a goat on a hill / Who nibbled the flowers until / The farmer came by / With a shout and a cry / And the goat ran away down the hill." What kind of poem is this?
  • A.concrete poem
  • B.haiku
  • C.limerick
6.Read: "The cat sat on the garden wall / And never seemed to mind at all." These two rhyming lines are a...
  • A.free verse poem
  • B.couplet
  • C.haiku
7.A short poem that expresses the poet's own strong feelings, often in a musical way, is a...
  • A.acrostic poem
  • B.lyric poem
  • C.narrative poem
8.Which kind of poem is most likely to have a beginning, a middle and an end, like a story?
  • A.narrative poem
  • B.haiku
  • C.acrostic poem

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Answer key — Kinds of Poem

Set 12. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.free verse
  2. 2.limerick
  3. 3.couplet
  4. 4.haiku
  5. 5.limerick
  6. 6.couplet
  7. 7.lyric poem
  8. 8.narrative poem

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.4.5 of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.