Lyrics poem

MEANING: A lyric poem or lyrical poem in literature is a poem in which the

poet either expresses his feelings and emotions

EXAMPLE: “O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast” by Robert Burns

O, WERT thou in the cauld blast

⁠On yonder lea, on yonder lea,

My plaidie to the angry airt,
⁠I’d shelter thee, I’d shelter thee.

Or did Misfortune’s bitter storms

⁠Around thee blaw, around thee blaw,
Thy bield should be my bosom,
⁠To share it a’, to share it a’.

NARRATIVE POEM

MEANING: A narrative poem in literature is a poem which tells a story. It has a full
storyline with all the elements of a traditional story

EXAMPLE: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

“This Chanticleer stood high upon his toes,

Stretching his neck, and both his eyes did close,

And so did crow right loudly, for the nonce;

And Russel Fox, he started up at once,

And by the gorget grabbed our Chanticleer,

Flung him on back, and toward the wood did steer,

For there was no man who as yet pursued.”

MASK
MEANING: Mask Poems - Below are popular examples of all types of mask
poetry to share and read. This list of poems is composed of the works of
modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, famous, and modern
examples for mask.
MASK

MEANING; Mask Poems - Below are popular examples of all types of mask poetry to share and read.
This list of poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best,
famous, and modern examples for mask.

EXAMPLE: UNDER THE MASK

its village queen
comming out holloween
is it a cat or dog or rat
they plan this task
never out of gas
could BE FRIEND TOOWHO IS
UNDER THE MASK

APOSTROPHE

MEANING:

In literature, apostrophe is a figure of speech sometimes represented by an

exclamation, such as “Oh.” A writer or speaker, using apostrophe, speaks directly to
someone who is not present or is dead, or speaks to an inanimate object.

EXAMPLE: Death Be Not Proud (By John Donne)

“Death be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.”

CONVERSATION

MEANING: Conversation Poems - Below are popular examples of all types of conversation poetry to
share and read. This list of poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
short, long, best, famous, and modern examples for conversation.

EXAMPLE: scarcity
scarcity is an unlimited amount of wants versus a limited amount of resources
i thought love should never be scarce,
but our love has scarcity
i, an abyss of unlimited wants
you, a finite reservoir of love
maybe i should learn not to be so greedy
but is it so bad
if the only thing i want
costs nothing

you would disagree

of course you would
you'd say your love is infinite
but if it was endless
then how are there still times
when i feel empty
when the end of a conversation
feels hollow
love is supposed to fill the holes
so why do i feel more holed now
than before

STANZA

MEANING: A stanza is a group of lines that form the basic metrical unit in a poem. So, in a 12-line poem,
the first four lines might be a stanza. You can identify a stanza by the number of lines it has and its rhyme
scheme or pattern, such as A-B-A-B. There are many different types of stanzas. Some of the most common
stanza examples include:

EXAMPLE: (First Stanza)

I love to write
Day and night
What would my heart do
But cry, sigh, and be blue
If I could not write
(Second Stanza)
Writing feels good
And I know it should
Who could have knew
That what I do
Is write, write, write.
-"I Love to Write Poems," Unknown

COUPLET
MEANING: A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually
consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be
formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (or closed) couplet, each of the two lines
is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line of
verse. In a run-on (or open) couplet, the meaning of the first line continues to the
second.[1]
EXAMPLE:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.[3]

TRIMETER
MEANING: Trimeter is a poetic meter comprised of three metrical feet per line. A foot is a
beat made up of stressed and unstressed syllables; poetic lines written in meter
contain a repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables throughout the poem.
While trimeter is slightly rarer than pentameter (a metrical line of poetry comprised of
five feet), there are countless examples of trimeter throughout the history of poetry.
We will look at some of these different examples below.
EXAMPLE:

It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp’st thou me?
The Bridegroom’s doors are opened wide,
And I am next of kin;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
May’st hear the merry din.’

BALLAD

MEANING: a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of
unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the
folk culture.

EXAMPLE:

Scottish traditional ballad

” ‘O I forbid you, maiden all,

That wears gold in your hair,
To come or go by Carterhaugh
For young Tam Lin is there.”
HAIKU

MEANING; A haiku poem has three lines, where the first and last lines have five moras, and
the middle line has seven. The pattern in this Japanese genre is 5-7-5. The mora is
another name for a sound unit, which is like a syllable, though there is a difference. As
the moras cannot be translated into English, they are modified, and syllables are used
instead. The lines of such poems rarely rhyme with each other.

EXAMPLE: Old Pond (By Basho)

Old pond
a frog jumps
the sound of water

VILLANELLE
MEANING: a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain,
with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets
and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.

EXAMPLE; Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,

Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright

Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,

And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight

Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,

Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
CINQIAUN

MEANING: A cinquain is a five-line poem that was invented by Adelaide Crapsey. She was an American
poet who took her inspiration from Japanese haiku and tanka. A collection of poems, titled Verse,
was published in 1915 and included 28 cinquains.
Cinquains are particularly vivid in their imagery and are meant to convey a certain mood or
emotion.

EXAMPLE:
Triad by Adelaide Crapsey (American Cinquain)

These be
three silent things:
The falling snow . . . the hour
Before the dawn . . . the mouth of one
Just dead.

LIMERICK

MEANING : Limerick is a comic verse, containing five anapestic (unstressed/unstressed/stressed) lines,

in which the first, second, and fifth lines are longer, rhyme together, and follow three metrical feet.
The third and fourth lines rhyme together, are shorter, and follow two metrical feet. However,
sometimes it may vary, and amphibrachic (unstressed/stressed/unstressed) form can replace
anapestic. In fact, it is a bawdy, humorous, or nonsensical verse written in the form of five anapests,
with an aabba rhyme scheme. Since it has a special structure and format, it is called fixed or closed
form of poetry.

EXAMPLE: “There was a young lady of station

‘I love man’ was her sole exclamation;
But when men cried: ‘You flatter,’
She replied, ‘Oh! no matter
Isle of Man is the true explanation.'”

SONNET

MEANING : The word sonnet is derived from the Italian word “sonetto,” which means a “little song”
or small lyric. In poetry, a sonnet has 14 lines, and is written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10
syllables. It has a specific rhyme scheme, and a volta, or a specific turn.

EXAMPLE: “From fairest creatures we desire increase,

That thereby beauty’s rose might never die.
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, mak’st waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee…”

TETRAMETER

MEANING : First, let's review the definition of an iamb. An iamb is a beat in a line of poetry where one
unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. Iamb sounds like a heartbeat, sort of like duh-
DUH. When four beats are placed together in a line of poetry, it is called tetrameter. When we
combine iamb with tetrameter, it is a line of poetry with four beats of one unstressed syllable,
followed by one stressed syllable, and it is called iambic tetrameter. It sounds like: duh-DUH, duh-
DUH, duh-DUH, duh-DUH. Some believe that tetrameter is a natural rhythm and that it is easy to read
out loud. After each 8-syllable line, the reader tends to pause.

EXAMPLE: 'I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.'

POETIC POEM

MEANING : A poem is a collection of spoken or written words that expresses ideas or emotions in a
powerfully vivid and imaginative style. A poem is comprised of a particular rhythmic and metrical
pattern. In fact, it is a literary technique that is different from prose or ordinary speech, as it is either
in metrical pattern or in free verse. Writers or poets express their emotions through this medium
more easily, as they face difficulty when expressing through some other medium. It serves the
purpose of a light to take the readers towards the right path. Also, sometimes it teaches them
a moral lesson through sugar-coated language.

EXAMPLE: “By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,

By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited…”