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.

Kinds of Poem

RL.4.5

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Circle the right answer.

1.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.limerick
B.concrete poem
C.haiku

2.A poem with no regular rhyme and no regular beat is written in...

A.free verse
B.couplets
C.limerick form

3.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

4.A funny poem of five lines, where lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme, is a...

A.free verse poem
B.haiku
C.limerick

5.Read: "Sand between my toes / Under a bright sky / Noon, and we swim." The first letters of the lines spell SUN. What kind of poem is this?

A.haiku
B.narrative poem
C.acrostic poem

6.A poem that tells a story, with characters and events in order, is a...

A.narrative poem
B.haiku
C.acrostic poem

7.Which kind of poem is most likely to have a beginning, a middle and an end, like a story?

A.acrostic poem
B.haiku
C.narrative poem

8.Which form is built on a strict count of syllables rather than on rhyme?

A.couplet
B.haiku
C.limerick

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

Answer key — Kinds of Poem