The recognized poetic and prose forms literature uses to shape a piece of writing, independent of its subject matter: sonnet forms, fixed forms of the Romance tradition, East Asian verse forms, Middle Eastern and Persian verse forms, narrative and song forms, short lyric and epigrammatic forms, open and experimental verse, and extended prose forms. Belongs here: a defined formal pattern a work is written in, such as the sonnet or the ghazal. Does not belong here: a thematic genre such as tragedy or romance, carried under Genres, or the work that uses the form, carried under Works.