Lyric Poem

1. Narrative Poem Lyric Poem LYRIC POEMS are about the poet’s feelings and moods. Many of the words to songs are lyric poems. Narrative poems tell stories in verse Famous narrative poems include Homer’s “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey”

2. Types of Lyric Poetry • Haiku • Cinquain • Limerick

3. The laundry piles up. I cannot keep up with it. Will someone help me? --Mrs. Cline Haiku/SenryuThree non-rhyming linesFirst line—5 syllablesSecond line—7 syllablesThird line—5 syllables November evening The wind from a passing truck Ripples a puddle --Cor van den Heuvel The sudden storm’s dead… Petals from the dogwood tree On the murky pond

4. Morning alarming goes off. I hit the snooze button and delay it for nine minutes. I sleep. By Mrs. Cline CinquainFive non-rhyming linesFirst line—2 syllablesSecond line—4 syllablesThird line—6 syllablesFourth line—8Fifth line—2 If I had a nickel for every pickle I have eaten, pickle-rich I would be. By Matt Cline

5. An amusing verse of five lines Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme Lines 3 & 4 rhyme & are usually shorter Limerick There was an old man with a beard Who 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

6. 1. What type of poem is this? • Baseball • Bat cracks against • The pitch, sending it out • Over the back fence, I did it! • Homerun

7. 2. What type of poem is this? • As the wind does blow • Across the trees, I see the • Buds blooming in May

8. 3. What type of poem is this? • Our novels get longa and longaTheir language gets stronga and strongaThere’s much to be saidFor a life that is ledIn illiterate places like Bonga

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 6. What type of poem is this? • It’s cold—and I wait • For someone to shelter me • And take me from here.

12. 7. What type of figurative language is this? • BZZZZZ.. The bee would not stop!!

13. 8. What type of figurative language is this? • The wind whistled as the wind kicked up.

14. 9. What type of figurative language is this? • I have told you a million times to stop talking.

15. 10. What type of figurative language is this? • My mom is a cleaning machine.