List poem: A poetic structure organized as catalog or inventory, enumerating items, qualities, or experiences in serial fashion. List poems can be simple inventories or complex structures where accumulated items create cumulative meaning. The form appears in various traditions from biblical genealogies through Whitman's catalogs to contemporary inventory poems. List structure creates accumulation, abundance, and inclusiveness while potentially questioning categorical organization. Understanding list poems reveals how non-narrative structures can organize poetic content and how enumeration itself becomes expressive device conveying plenty, complexity, or attempts at comprehensive naming.

List poem enumerates items, experiences, or observations in catalog form. This accumulative structure can be powerful for abundance, itemization, or building toward climax through systematic addition.