1. What Is a Lyric Poem?

2. Types of Poems (1) Classical—with meter (2) Free Verse—no fixed meter

3. Classical Characteristics Classical: a. meter b. rhyme (rime) c. stanza

4. Free Verse--Characteristics Free Verse: a. No fixed meter b. Any shape c. Loosely cadenced

5. Classical Examples: Roses are red; Violets are blue. You’re my honey. I love you. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though. He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

6. Classical Examples: Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!

7. Free Verse Examples: When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed, And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night, I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

8. Free Verse Examples: Is there such a thing as “love” in modern consciousness, or is there just the ripple of a little wave of vague belief to the lying breeze of a cheater’s mind?

9. Types of Meter Iamb (iambic) -’ Trochee (trochaic) ‘- Anapest (anapestic) --’ Dactyl (dactylic) ‘--

10. Examples of Each Meter Iamb: The best in life is yet to come. I’ve bet my loot that you’re my hon. Trochee: Tuck me tight and let me sleep. Pray to God my soul to keep. Anapest: When the best of the people get slaughtered outright Not a good soul can sleep without nightmares at night. Dactyl: Touching the fretting with tentative fingers Mark couldn’t bring out the best in his singers.

11. Types of Rhyme (Rime) (1) Perfect rhyme: run, sun; say, play; walking, talking (2) Imperfect rhyme (slant-rhyme, off-rhyme) (A) Assonance: pay, Kate; lift, grip; chosen, potent (B) Consonance: cat, sit; wild, guild; pause, fizz (3) Alliteration: Put that in your pipe and puff it punk!

12. Figures of Speech (Tropes) (1) metaphor: John’s a bear. (2) simile: John’s like a bear. (3) metonymy: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread (Genesis). (4) synecdoche: Lend me a hand. (5) hyperbole: I’ll love you till all the seas run dry.

13. Types of Stanzas (“Paragraphs”) (1) couplet (Alexander Pope) (2) tercet (Robert Herrick, “Upon Julia’s Clothes”) (3) quatrain (William Blake’s “The Tiger”) (4) rime royal—seven-line iambic pentameter rhyming ababbcc (Shakespeare's “Rape of Lucrece”) (5) ottava rima—eight iambic pentameter lines rhyming abababcc (Byron’s Don Juan) (6) Spenserian stanza—nine verses, first eight in iambic pentameter and the ninth in iambic hexameter rhyming ababbcbcc (Spenser’s The Faerie Queen)