Poetry Collection: word count & book length

A collection of poems, typically 30–60 pieces. Poetry is measured in pages; full-length collections commonly run 48–100 pages, chapbooks 16–40.

• Never let a long line wrap mid-stanza without a hanging indent — choose a trim wide enough for your longest lines.
• Ebook poetry needs careful formatting: line breaks reflow on small screens.

Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. A particular instance of poetry is a poem and is written by a poet. Poets use a variety of techniques called poetic devices, such as assonance, alliteration, consonance, euphony and cacophony, onomatopoeia, rhythm (via metre), rhyme schemes (patterns in the type and placement of a phoneme group) and sound symbolism, to produce musical or other artistic effects. They also frequently organize these devices into poetic structures, which may be strict or loose, conventional or invented by the poet. Poetic structures vary dramatically by language and cultural convention, but they often rely on rhythmic metre: patterns of syllable stress or syllable (or mora) weight.

From the Wikipedia article “Poetry”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.