EPIC AND NARRATIVE POETRY.--The great epics, metrical romances, metrical
tales, ballads, pastorals, idylls, etc.
DRAMATIC (including all narrative poetry which presents actors as
speaking and acting for themselves).--Tragedy, comedy, farce, opera,
melodrama, mask, interlude, etc.
LYRIC.--Odes, sacred and secular songs, elegy, sonnets, simple lyrics.
DIDACTIC.--Moral essays in verse, satiric poetry, etc.