Favorites: Onegin stanzas, because the groupings are flexible, the masculine and feminine rhymes provide variety, and the tetrameter is conversational. Ghazals, because they provide an opportunity to explore many facets of the same word.
Disfavorites: Terzanelles, because I can't write a decent one. (I have a friend who does wonders with them.) Pantoums, because it's so hard to make them say anything, ever. Never could get the hang of quiet little syllabic poems either, like haiku and tanka. (Yeah, I guess that's not really a rhyme scheme.)
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