Lyric Poem

LYRIC POEMS are about the poet’s feelings and moods.

Many of the words to songs are lyric poems.

Narrative Poem

Narrative poems tell stories in verse

Famous narrative poems include Homer’s “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey”

Types of Lyric Poetry

Haiku

Cinquain

Limerick

Haiku/SenryuThree non-rhyming lines

First line—5 syllablesSecond line—7 syllables

Third line—5 syllables

The laundry piles up.

I cannot keep up with it.

Will someone help me?

--Mrs. Cline

The sudden storm’s dead…

Petals from the dogwood tree

On the murky pond

November eveningThe wind from a passing truckRipples a puddle

--Cor van den Heuvel

CinquainFive non-rhyming lines

First line—2 syllablesSecond line—4 syllables

Third line—6 syllablesFourth line—8Fifth line—2

Morning

alarming goes off.

I hit the snooze button

and delay it for nine minutes.

I sleep.

By Mrs. Cline

If Ihad a nickelfor every pickleI have eaten, pickle-rich Iwould be.

By Matt Cline

LimerickAn amusing verse of five lines

Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhymeLines 3 & 4 rhyme & are usually shorter

There was an old man with a beardWho said, “It is just as I feared!Two owls and a hen,Four larks and a wren,Have all built a nest in my beard!”

By Edward Lear

1. What type of poem is this?

Baseball

Bat cracks against

The pitch, sending it out

Over the back fence, I did it!

Homerun

2. What type of poem is this?

As the wind does blow

Across the trees, I see the

Buds blooming in May

 

3. What type of poem is this?

Our novels get longa and longaTheir language gets stronga and stronga

There’s much to be saidFor a life that is led

In illiterate places like Bonga

4. What type of poem is this?

There was a Young Lady whose chinResembled the point of a pin:

So she had it made sharp,And purchased a harp,

And played several tunes with her chin.

5. What type of poem is this?

Listen...

With faint dry sound,

Like steps of passing ghosts,

The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees

And fall.

6. What type of poem is this?

It’s cold—and I wait

For someone to shelter me

And take me from here.

7. What type of figurative language is this?

BZZZZZ.. The bee would not stop!!

8. What type of figurative language is this?

The wind whistled as the wind kicked up.

9. What type of figurative language is this?

I have told you a million times to stop talking.

10. What type of figurative language is this?

My mom is a cleaning machine.