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What Is a Lyric Poem?

What Is a Lyric Poem?. Types of Poems. (1) Classical—with meter (2) Free Verse—no fixed meter. Classical Characteristics. Classical: a. meter b. rhyme (rime) c. stanza. Free Verse--Characteristics. Free Verse: a. No fixed meter b. Any shape

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What Is a Lyric Poem?

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  1. What Is a Lyric Poem?

  2. Types of Poems • (1) Classical—with meter • (2) Free Verse—no fixed meter

  3. Classical Characteristics Classical: a. meter b. rhyme (rime) c. stanza

  4. Free Verse--Characteristics • Free Verse: a. No fixed meter b. Any shape c. Loosely cadenced

  5. Classical Examples: • Roses are red; Violets are blue.You’re 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.

  6. Classical Examples: • Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:What 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!

  7. 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.

  8. 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 cheater’s mind?

  9. Types of Meter • Iamb (iambic) -’ • Trochee (trochaic) ‘- • Anapest (anapestic) --’ • Dactyl (dactylic) ‘--

  10. Examples of Each Meter • Iamb: The best in life is yet to come. • I’ve bet my loot that you’re 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 couldn’t bring out the best in his singers.

  11. 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!

  12. Figures of Speech (Tropes) • (1) metaphor: John’s a bear. • (2) simile: John’s like a bear. • (3) metonymy: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread (Genesis). • (4) synecdoche: Lend me a hand. • (5) hyperbole: I’ll love you till all the seas run dry.

  13. Types of Stanzas (“Paragraphs”) • (1) couplet (Alexander Pope) • (2) tercet (Robert Herrick, “Upon Julia’s Clothes”) • (3) quatrain (William Blake’s “The Tiger”) • (4) rime royal—seven-line iambic pentameter rhyming ababbcc (Shakespeare's “Rape of Lucrece”) • (5) ottava rima—eight iambic pentameter lines rhyming abababcc (Byron’s Don Juan) • (6) Spenserian stanza—nine verses, first eight in iambic pentameter and the ninth in iambic hexameter rhyming ababbcbcc (Spenser’s The Faerie Queen)

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