Lyric Sonnets Odes Free Verse POETRY

 A lyric is a poem that directly expresses the speaker’s thoughts and emotions in a musical way.  The point of view is usually first person.  Marked by imagination, melody, and emotion, a lyric creates for the reader a single unified impression. LYRIC POEMS

 “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman LYRIC POEM When I heard the learn’d astronomer When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them. How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

 A specific form of poetry which uses 14 lines and has a set rhyme scheme. It is (usually)written in iambic pentameter which uses 10 syllables per line for rhythm.  A sonnet is a type of lyric poem. SONNETS

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints!– I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning SONNET NO. 43

 Iambic pentameter refers to the rhythm (or meter) of the poem.  The unit of measurement in a line of poetry is called a foot.  The word pentameter indicates that there are five feet in a line (penta means “five.”)  An iamb is an unaccented syllable, as in the word decide.  Iambic pentameter means that a line has five iambic feet.  You can determine the rhythm by reading a line aloud.  Accented or stressed syllables are marked with this (/): // / / /  I shall but love thee bet / ter af / ter death. IAMBIC PENTAMETER

 Sonnet No. 43by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is an Italian sonnet. It follows a certain rhyme scheme.  English sonnets follow a different rhyme scheme.  Sonnet No. 43 follows mostly an abba pattern. SONNETS

 An ode is a lyric poem written to praise someone or something. ODE

How happy he, who free from care The rage of courts, and noise of towns; Contented breathes his native air, In his own grounds. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest! Who can unconcern’dly find Hours, days, and years slide swift away, In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day, “ODE ON SOLITUDE” BY ALEXANDER POPE

Sound sleep by night; study and ease Together mix’d; sweet recreation, And innocence; which most does please, With meditation. Thus let me live, unheard, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie. “ODE ON SOLITUDE” (CONTINUED)

 Free verse poetry follows no particular rules.  It may or may not have rhymes or stanzas or repetition. FREE VERSE