1. Lyric Poem LYRIC POEMS are about the poet’s feelings and moods. Many of the words to songs are lyric poems. Narrative Poem 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. Haiku Three non-rhyming lines First line—5 syllables Second line—7 syllables Third line—5 syllables The laundry piles up. I cannot keep up with it. Will someone help me? --Mrs. Cline The sudden storm’s dead… Petals from the dogwood tree On the murky pond November evening The wind from a passing truck Ripples a puddle --Cor van den Heuvel

4. Cinquain Five non-rhyming lines First line—2 syllables Second line—4 syllables Third line—6 syllables Fourth line—8 syllables Fifth line—2 syllables Morning alarming goes off. I hit the snooze button and delay it for nine minutes. I sleep. By Mrs. Cline If I had a nickel for every pickle I have eaten, pickle-rich I would be. By Matt Cline

5. 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