This paper will discuss the motivations and challenges of creating a database of poetic form based on EEBO-TCP texts. We are current completing a pilot version of a database that will eventually contain information on the genres, metrical structure and rhyme schemes of all poetry in early modern printed texts. In this resource, users may search a variety of criteria, searching specific poetic forms by name ("ode", "ballad"), or metre ("iambic tetrameter"), or rhyme scheme ("abcb") and then...