LYRIC POEM

 Lyric poetry expresses personal emotions or thoughts of the speaker, just like the
songs of today.
 Lyric poems always have a musical quality, or a specific melody which makes it easy
for you to sing along with.
 Short and written in first-person point of view

1) SONNET
 Sonnets have 14 lines usually written in iambic pentameter, which is five pairs
of stressed and unstressed syllables.
 Each line has 10 syllables.
 Two types of sonnets: the Italian and the English, or Shakespearean.
 Petrarchan sonnet is divided into two stanzas, the octave (the first eight lines)
followed by the answering sestet (the final six lines).
 The tightly woven rhyme scheme, abba, abba, cdecde or cdcdcd, is suited
for the rhyme-rich Italian language.
 English sonnet: abab, cdcd, efef, gg

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

2) ELEGY
 Elegies commemorate the dead and are melancholy, mournful and
contemplative
  Elegies are composed to honor a single person’s life
 Darker theme is always apparent in elegies
 Elegies represent a process of grieving with three parts: mourning, praise for
the individual’s achievements, and consoling words for the living.
 Walt Whitman’s "O Captain! My Captain!" uses three stanzas to depict the
standard process of grief, praise, and consolation.
 In Memory of W. B. Yeats (EX).

3) ODE
 Often about positive topic.
 Long lyric poem with a serious subject written in an elevated style and often
expresses deep feeling
 A kind of poem devoted to the praise of a person, animal, or thing.

4) DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
 A speaker, who is explicitly someone other than the author, makes a speech to
a silent auditor in a specific situation and at a critical moment.
 Examples include Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess”.
 Shares many characteristics with a theatrical monologue or soliloquy: an
audience is implied; there is no dialogue; and the poet speaks through an
assumed voice—a character, a fictional identity, or a persona.

NARRATIVE POETRY

 Gives a verbal representation, in verse, of a sequence of connected events, it

propels characters through a plot.
 It is always told by a narrator.
  Narrative poems might tell of a love story (like Tennyson's Maud), the story of
a father and son (like Wordsworth's Michael) or the deeds of a hero or heroine
(like Walter Scott's lay of the last minstrel).

1) EPIC
 Tend to use an elevated style of language and supernatural beings take part
in the action.
 Long, narrative poem that is usually about heroic deeds and events that are
significant to the culture of the poet.
 Many ancient writers used epic poetry to tell tales of intense adventures and
heroic feats.
 Ex: The Illiad

2) BALLAD
 Is a song, originally transmitted orally, which tells a story.
 It is an important form of folk poetry which was adapted for literary uses from
the sixteenth century onwards.
 The ballad stanza is usually a four-line stanza, alternating tetrameter(4 feet)
and trimeter(3 feet)
 Ballad does not tell the reader what’s happening, but rather shows the reader
what’s happening, describing each crucial moment in the trail of events.
 To convey that sense of emotional urgency, the ballad is often constructed in
quatrain stanzas, each line containing as few as three or four stresses and
rhyming either the second and fourth lines, or all alternating lines.

LIMERICK

 Silly poem with five lines rhyming AABBA.

 They are often funny or nonsensical.
 Limericks were made famous by Edward Lear, a famous author who wrote the "Book
of Nonsense" in the 1800's.
 The first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of
syllables (typically 8 or 9). The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other and have
the same number of syllables (typically 5 or 6)
 Limericks often start with the line "There once was a..." or "There was a..."
 Example of an 8,8,5,5,8 syllable limerick:

STAR by Kaitlyn Guenther

There once was a wonderful star

Who thought she would go very far

Until she fell down

And looked like a clown

She knew she would never go far.

HAIKU

 Haiku poems consist of 3 lines.

 The first and last lines of a Haiku have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables.
 The lines rarely rhyme.
 Usually written about things that are recognizable to the reader.
 Animals and seasons are examples of recognizable topics children might enjoy
exploring.

WHAT AM I
Green and speckled legs,
Hop on logs and lily pads
Splash in cool water.