Forms of Poetry

FORMS OF POETRY

​LYRIC POEMS

​A LYRIC POEM expresses a person's thoughts and feelings about a specific topic.

• ​Usually contain musical qualities or effects. The repetition of words and sounds helps to convey the poem's meaning to the reader.

• ​Usually short, can be rhymed or unrhymed.

​Lyric Poetry Video

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​Lyric Poem Example:

​The sky is the palate

​On which the atmosphere paints.

​A brush of orange

​And then an explosion

​Pinks, purples, reds.

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Multiple Choice

TRUE or FALSE?

A lyric poem ALWAYS rhymes.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

TRUE or FALSE?

A lyric poem contains musical qualities.

• TRUE

• FALSE

​NARRATIVE POEMS

​A NARRATIVE POEM tells a story.

• ​Contains the main elements of a short story--characters, setting, conflict, plot.

• ​Can be rhyming or unrhyming.

​Narrative Poetry Video

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​Narrative Poem Example:

Long ago, in a far off land

​A prince was born with a mighty hand.

​He ruled with power

​He made us free

​Did I mention, the prince was three?

Multiple Choice

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

• This is a NARRATIVE poem. 

• This is a LYRIC poem. 

Multiple Choice

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea.

That a maiden there lived whom you may know.

By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

• This is a NARRATIVE poem. 

• This is a LYRIC poem. 

Multiple Choice

Listen, my children, and you shall hear

Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere...

...He said to his friend, "If the British march

By land or sea from town to-night 

Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch

Of the North-Church tower as a signal-light, --

• This is a NARRATIVE poem. 

• This is a LYRIC poem. 

Multiple Choice

I wander lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

• This is a NARRATIVE poem. 

• This is a LYRIC poem. 

Multiple Choice

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

• This is a NARRATIVE poem. 

• This is a LYRIC poem.