Narrative Poem Lyric Poem LYRIC POEMS are about the poet’s feelings and moods. Many of the words to songs are lyric poems. Narrative poems tell stories in verse Famous narrative poems include Homer’s “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey”

Types of Lyric Poetry Haiku Cinquain Limerick

Haiku/Senryu Three non-rhyming lines First line—5 syllables Second line—7 syllables Third line—5 syllables November evening The wind from a passing truck Ripples a puddle --Cor van den Heuvel The sudden storm’s 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

Cinquain Five non-rhyming lines First line—2 syllables Second line—4 syllables Third line—6 syllables Fourth line—8 Fifth line—2 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

An amusing verse of five lines Lines 3 & 4 rhyme & are usually shorter 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

1. What type of poem is this? Baseball Bat cracks against The pitch, sending it out Over the back fence, I did it! Homerun

2. What type of poem is this? As the wind does blow Across the trees, I see the Buds blooming in May  

3. What type of poem is this? Our novels get longa and longa Their language gets stronga and stronga There’s much to be said For a life that is led In illiterate places like Bonga

4. What type of poem is this? There was a Young Lady whose chin Resembled the point of a pin: So she had it made sharp, And purchased a harp, And played several tunes with her chin.

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.

6. What type of poem is this? It’s cold—and I wait For someone to shelter me And take me from here.

7. What type of figurative language is this? BZZZZZ.. The bee would not stop!!

8. What type of figurative language is this? The wind whistled as the wind kicked up.

9. What type of figurative language is this? I have told you a million times to stop talking.

10. What type of figurative language is this? My mom is a cleaning machine.