1. 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”

2. Types of Lyric Poetry
Haiku
Cinquain
Limerick

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

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

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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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