What Is a Lyric Poem

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What Is a Lyric Poem?
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Types of Poems

• (1) Classicalwith meter
• (2) Free Verseno fixed meter

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Classical Characteristics

• Classical a. meter
• b. rhyme (rime)
• c. stanza

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Free Verse--Characteristics

• Free Verse a. No fixed meter
• b. Any shape
• c. Loosely cadenced

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Classical Examples

• Roses are red Violets are blue.Youre my
  honey.I love you.Whose woods these are I think
  I know.His house is in the village, though.He
  will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods
  fill up with snow.

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Classical Examples

• Make me thy lyre, even as the forest isWhat if
  my leaves are falling like its own!The tumult of
  thy mighty harmoniesWill take from both a deep,
  autumnal tone,Sweet though in sadness. Be thou,
  Spirit fierce,My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous
  one!

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Free Verse Examples

• When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed,And the
  great star early drooped in the western sky in
  the night,I mourned, and yet shall mourn with
  ever-returning spring.So much depends upona
  red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside
  the whitechickens.

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Free Verse Examples

• Is there such a thing as love in modern
  consciousness, or is there just the ripple of a
  little wave of vague belief to the lying breeze
  of a cheaters mind?

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Types of Meter

• Iamb (iambic) -
• Trochee (trochaic) -
• Anapest (anapestic) --
• Dactyl (dactylic) --

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Examples of Each Meter

• Iamb The best in life is yet to come.
• Ive bet my loot that youre my hon.
• Trochee Tuck me tight and let me sleep.
• Pray to God my soul to keep.
• Anapest When the best of the people get
  slaughtered outright
• Not a good soul can sleep without
  nightmares at night.
• Dactyl Touching the fretting with tentative
  fingers
• Mark couldnt bring out the best in
  his singers.

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Types of Rhyme (Rime)

• (1) Perfect rhyme run, sun say, play walking,
  talking
• (2) Imperfect rhyme (slant-rhyme, off-rhyme)
• (A) Assonance pay, Kate lift, grip
  chosen, potent
• (B) Consonance cat, sit wild, guild
  pause, fizz
• (3) Alliteration Put that in your pipe and puff
  it punk!

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Figures of Speech (Tropes)

• (1) metaphor Johns a bear.
• (2) simile Johns like a bear.
• (3) metonymy In the sweat of thy face shalt thou
  eat bread (Genesis).
• (4) synecdoche Lend me a hand.
• (5) hyperbole Ill love you till all the seas
  run dry.

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Types of Stanzas (Paragraphs)

• (1) couplet (Alexander Pope)
• (2) tercet (Robert Herrick, Upon Julias
  Clothes)
• (3) quatrain (William Blakes The Tiger)
• (4) rime royalseven-line iambic pentameter
  rhyming ababbcc (Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece)
• (5) ottava rimaeight iambic pentameter lines
  rhyming abababcc (Byrons Don Juan)
• (6) Spenserian stanzanine verses, first eight in
  iambic pentameter and the ninth in iambic
  hexameter rhyming ababbcbcc (Spensers The Faerie
  Queen)