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One 8 to 20 line poem with rhyme scheme - This is probably the most traditional poem type that we all learned in school. There are many different types of rhyme schemes so we likely want to pick one that best fits an 8-20 line poem. Some various types of rhyme schemes: (thanks to wikipedia)
* Clerihew: "aabb aabb".
* Couplet: "aa", but usually occurs as "aa bb cc dd ...".
* Monorhyme: "aaaaa...", an identical rhyme on every line, common in Latin and Arabic
* Ottava rima: "abababcc".
* Sonnet
o Petrarchan sonnet: "abba abba cde cde" or "abba abba cdc cdc".
o Shakespearean sonnet: "abab cdcd efef gg".
o Spenserian sonnet: "abab bcbc cdcd ee".
o Onegin stanzas: "aBaBccDDeFFeGG" with the lowercase letters representing feminine rhymes and the uppercase representing masculine rhymes, written in iambic tetrameter.
* Spenserian stanza: "ababbcbcc".
* Triplet: "aaa", often repeating like the couplet.
I'm not putting an example here as this is pretty self explanatory I think. I personally would guess a Shakesperean sonnet might be the best for this type of thing. That rhyme pattern is:
abab cdcd efef gg
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