What is your favorite poetic style?

Guys, what is your favorite poetic style and form?

There's dactylic hexameter of Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. There's the iambic pentameters of Shakespeare, Milton, and Spenser, and of most of the English poetic tradition; the iambic pentameter is often mixed with blank verse. And then there's free verse, and then there's the rhyming poetry of Blake, Shelley, and the great poets of the sonnet.

I find myself attracted to the sonnet as written by Shakespeare and Milton, and I love the free verse of Whitman (his free verse is unmatched, and it works especially for his elaborate catalogues). But if I had to pick, I'd probably go with Whitmanian free-verse and Shakespearean/Miltonic blank verse, the former for its free energy and the latter for its expansive grandeur and suitability for theatricality and epic grandeur. I'd also say I love the sonnet.

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What is your favorite poetic style?