Lyric Poem

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Lyric Poem
Narrative Poem
LYRIC POEMS are about the poets feelings and
moods. Many of the words to songs are lyric
poems.
Narrative poems tell stories in verse Famous
narrative poems include Homers The Iliad and
The Odyssey
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Types of Lyric Poetry

• Haiku
• Cinquain
• Limerick

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Haiku/SenryuThree non-rhyming linesFirst line5
syllablesSecond line7 syllablesThird line5
syllables
November evening The wind from a passing
truck Ripples a puddle --Cor van den Heuvel
The sudden storms dead Petals from the dogwood
tree On the murky pond

• The laundry piles up.
• I cannot keep up with it.
• Will someone help me?
• --Mrs. Cline

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CinquainFive non-rhyming linesFirst line2
syllablesSecond line4 syllablesThird line6
syllablesFourth line8Fifth line2
If I had a nickel for every pickle I have eaten,
pickle-rich I would be. By Matt Cline

• Morning
• alarming goes off.
• I hit the snooze button
• and delay it for nine minutes.
• I sleep.
• By Mrs. Cline

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Limerick

• An amusing verse of five lines
• Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme
• Lines 3 4 rhyme are usually shorter

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
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1. What type of poem is this?

• Baseball
• Bat cracks against
• The pitch, sending it out
• Over the back fence, I did it!
• Homerun

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2. What type of poem is this?

• As the wind does blow
• Across the trees, I see the
• Buds blooming in May
•  

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3. What type of poem is this?

• Our novels get longa and longaTheir language
  gets stronga and strongaTheres much to be
  saidFor a life that is ledIn illiterate places
  like Bonga

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4. What type of poem is this?

• There was a Young Lady whose chinResembled the
  point of a pinSo she had it made sharp,And
  purchased a harp,And played several tunes with
  her chin.

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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.

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6. What type of poem is this?

• Its coldand I wait
• For someone to shelter me
• And take me from here.

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7. What type of figurative language is this?

• BZZZZZ.. The bee would not stop!!

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8. What type of figurative language is this?

• The wind whistled as the wind kicked up.

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9. What type of figurative language is this?

• I have told you a million times to stop
  talking.

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10. What type of figurative language is this?

• My mom is a cleaning machine.