Poetry Word Search
This poetry word search holds the forms and tools of a poetry unit: the sonnet, haiku, limerick and villanelle, the parts of a poem like the stanza and the couplet, and the sounds of rhyme, meter and assonance.
Each form comes with a rule. A sonnet has fourteen lines, often an octave followed by a sestet, and Shakespeare wrote 154 of them. A haiku as taught in English runs five, seven and five syllables, a pattern borrowed from Japanese poets like Basho in the 1600s. The limerick took off with Edward Lear's A Book of Nonsense in 1846, and its five lines bounce along the same rhythm every time.
The villanelle is the strictest form on the list: nineteen lines, only two rhymes, and two lines that come back again and again as a refrain. Dylan Thomas used it for Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night in 1951. Even the word poem is about craft. It comes from the Greek poiein, to make, so a poet was first of all a maker.
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Poetry Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Poetry word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
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12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
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10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Poetry has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Anapest
- Anthology
- Assonance
- Ballad
- Bard
- Blank Verse
- Caesura
- Clerihew
- Concrete Poem
- Consonance
- Couplet
- Dactyl
- Dirge
- Enjambment
- Epitaph
- Free Verse
- Ghazal
- Haiku
- Iamb
- Limerick
- Line
- Meter
- Muse
- Octave
- Pantoum
- Refrain
- Rhyme
- Rondeau
- Sestet
- Sestina
- Slam
- Sonnet
- Spondee
- Stanza
- Tanka
- Tercet
- Terza Rima
- Trochee
- Villanelle
- Volta