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 Lyric poetry is a genre of poetry that expresses personal
and emotional feelings. It is usually short and song-like.
In the ancient world, lyric poems were those which were
sung to the lyre. Lyric poems do not have to rhyme, and
today do not need to be set to music or a beat. The lyric
poem, dating from the Romantic era, does have some
thematic antecedents in ancient Greek and Roman
verse, but the ancient definition was based on metrical
criteria, and in archaic and classical Greek culture
presupposed live performance accompanied by a
stringed instrument.
A narrative poem is usually much longer
and relates a story. A lyric poem is shorter
and were originally played to a lyre.
 Haiku (also called Nature or Seasonal haiku) is an
unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed
lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5,7,5) or 17
syllables in all.
 Usually written in the present
tense and focuses on
nature(seasons).

HaikuFormat:
I am first with five
Then seven in the middle—
Five again to end.
Furuike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto
-Basho (1644-1694)

An old silent pond…

A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
-Translated by Harry Behn
 A Villanelle a nineteen-line poem with two
rhymes throughout, consisting of five
tercets and a quatrain, with the first and
third lines of the opening tercet recurring
alternately at the end of the other tercets
and with both repeated at the close of the
concluding quatrain.
“The Home on the Hill”
Edward Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

Why is it then we stray

They are all gone away,
Around the sunken sill?
The house is shut and still,
They are all gone away
There is nothing more to say
And our poor fancy play
Through broken walls and gray,
For them is wasted skill,
The wind blows bleak and shrill,
There is nothing more to say
They are all gone away
There is ruin and decay
Nor is there one today,
In the House on the Hill:
To speak them good or ill
They are all gone away,
There is nothing more to say
There is nothing more to say.
 Short and usually unrhymed poem
consisting of twenty-two(22) syllables
distributed as 2,4,6,8,2 in five lines.
 This was developed by the imagist,
Adelaide Crapsey.
―Snow‖

Look up…
From bleakening hills
Blows down the light, first breath
Of wintry wind…look up, and scent
The snow!
 This is a poem of fourteen(14) lines.
 There are two(2) kinds of sonnets according to
design. The first is the Petrarchan or Italian
sonnet which consists of an octave (8 lines) and
sestet (6 lines). The Shakespearean or English
sonnet consists of three quatrians(four lines
each) and a clinching couplet (two lines).

 William Shakespear wrote about 156 sonnets in

his lifetime.
“On His Blindness”
John Milton (1608-1674)
When I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide,
Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, least he returning chide,
Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd,
I fondly ask; But patience to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts, who best
Bar his milde yoak, they serve him best, his State
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed
And post o're Land and Ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and waite.
―Sonnet 1 – From Fairest Creatures We Desire
Increase‖

FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,

That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,
A Limerick is a rhymed humorous or
nonsense poem of five(5) lines which
originated in Limerick, Ireland.
 Limerick has a set rhyme of: a-a-b-b-a with
a syllable structure of: 9-9-6-6-9.
 One of the most popular poetic forms
among children.
 The fun of the Limerick lies in its rollicking
rhythm and its broad humour.
There was a young lady of station
"I love man" was her sole exclamation
But when men cried, "You flatter"
She replied, "Oh! no matter
Isle of Man is the true explanation―
-Lewis Carroll
A man hired by John Smith and Co.
Loudly declared that he’d tho.
Men that he saw
Dumping dirt near his door
The drivers, therefore, didn’t do.
-Mark Twain
 Free Verse is an irregular form of poetry in
which the content free of traditional rules of
versification.
 Adhering to no predetermined rules, but
usually with its own intricate patterns of
rhyme and rhythm.
 It requires the same thoughtful choice of
words and rhythmical patterns as the more
rigid stanza forms.
From After the Sea-Ship
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,
Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:
Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,
Waves, undulating waves—liquid, uneven, emulous waves,
Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,
Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface;
Larger and smaller waves, in the spread of the ocean, yearnfully
flowing;
The wake of the Sea-Ship, after she passes—flashing and frolicsome,
under the sun,
A motley procession, with many a fleck of foam, and many fragments,
Following the stately and rapid Ship—in the wake following.