1. Poetry Notes: Part II
Types Of Poems

2. Ballad
A narrative poem which is meant to be sung. Ballads are the narrative species of folk songs.
Typically, a ballad is dramatic, condensed and impersonal.

3. Ballad The Rime of the Ancient Mariner -Samuel Coleridge
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three. "By thy long gray beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? The Bridegroom’s doors are opened wide,
And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din."

4. Epic
A long narrative poem on a serious subject or action involving heroic characters.
An epic is told in a formal and elevated style.

5. Epic Paradise Lost -John Milton
Of Man’s first disobedience and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us and regain the blissful seat,
Sing, Heavenly Muse, that on the secret top
Of Oreb or of Sinai didst inspire…

6. Narrative Poem
A story, whether in prose or verse, involving events, characters, and what the characters say and do.

7. Narrative Birches - Robert Frost
When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy's been swinging them. But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay. Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning After a rain. They click upon themselves As the breeze rises, and turn many-coloured As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.

8. Lyric Poem
Any fairly short poem in which a speaker expresses intense personal emotion, a state of mind, or thoughts and feelings.

9. Lyric Kubla Khan -Samuel Coleridge
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

10. Ode
A long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style, and elaborate in it’s structure.

11. Ode Song Of Myself, Part 1 -Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

12. Sonnet
A lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of fourteen iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme.

13. Sonnet Sonnet 150 -William Shakespeare
O from what power hast thou this powerful might, With insufficiency my heart to sway, To make me give the lie to my true sight, And swear that brightness doth not grace the day? Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill, That in the very refuse of thy deeds, There is such strength and warrantise of skill, That in my mind thy worst all best exceeds?

14. Haiku
A poem of seventeen syllables arranged in three lines. The first and third lines contain five syllables; the second line seven.
The haiku is the shortest form in Japanese poetry.

15. Haiku Untitled -Kyoshi Takahama The winds that blows -
ask them, which leaf on the tree
will be next to go.