Catalog Verse

-Verse that presents a list of people, objects, or abstract qualities. The genealogical lists in the Bible and the lists of heroes in epics, such as The Iliad, are common types of Catalog Verse.

-A modern poet who uses this type of poetry is Gerard Manley Hopkins in his poem, "Pied Beauty."  Most modern Catalog Verse poems give thanks to a person or to God.

Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things-
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced--fold, fallow, and plough;
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change;
Praise Him.

Now, try one of your own.  The key is in the listing and the tone.  Including God is, of course, not required or even relevant; the choices are endless and yours.