Sonnet - a short rhyming poem with 14 lines.

The original sonnet form was invented in the 13/14th century by Dante and an Italian philosopher
named Francisco Petrarch. The form remained largely unknown until it was found and developed by writers such as Shakespeare. Sonnets use
iambic meter in each line and use line-ending rhymes.
Petrarchan sonnet.-Francesco Petrarch refined the earliest Sicilian sonnet forms of two fused quatrains and two fused tercets into an ababcdcd-
efefgg rhyme scheme, with 10 syllables per line, and defined sonnet writing for more than two centuries. Sir Thomas Wyatt brought it to
England, but William Shakespeare shepherded the Petrarchan form into the limelight.

Limerick - a five-line witty poem with a distinctive rhythm. The first, second and fifth lines, the longer lines, rhyme. The third and fourth shorter
lines rhyme. (A-A-B-B-A). A look at memorable limericks, each with five lines and an aabba rhyme scheme, clearly shows their intended
audiences, as well as the bawdiness, nonsense, humor, and delightful story telling simplicity of the form.

Haiku - This ancient form of poem writing is renowned for its small size as well as the precise punctuation and syllables needed on its three
lines. It is of ancient Asian origin. Haiku's are composed of 3 lines, each a phrase. The first line typically has 5 syllables, second line has 7 and the
3rd and last line repeats another 5. In addition A Haiku consists of 3 lines and 17 syllables

Narrative - A narrative poem tells the story of an event in the form of a poem. There is a strong sense of narration, characters, and plot.They can
also be very dramatic when telling of a particular situation.

Epic - a lengthy narrative poem in grand language celebrating the adventures and accomplishments of a legendary or conventional hero

Couplet - two lines of verse which rhyme and form a unit alone or as part of a poem

Free Verse - A Free Verse Poem does not follow any rules. Their creation is completely in the hands of the author. Rhyming, syllable count,
punctuation, number of lines, number of stanzas, and line formation can be done however the author wants in order to convey the idea. There
is no right or wrong way to create a Free Verse poem

Lyric Poem

A lyric poem is a short poem that is written to express personal feelings. In contrast to a narrative poem, a lyric poem is not meant to tell a

story. Rather, it is meant to express feelings. There isonly one speaker in a lyric poem, and lyric poetry has some of the same characteristics as

songs-in fact, lyric poetry grew out of the musical tradition.

Sonnet's are lyric poetry, as this sonnet of So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

Shakespeare illustrates: So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Emily Dickinson

Thou art more lovely and more temperate. This example of lyric poetry is a poem by Emily
Dickinson named I Felt a Funeral in my Brain.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
And Mourners to and fro
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
That Sense was breaking through -
And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, And when they all were seated,

untrimmed; A Service, like a

But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Drum -Kept beating - beating - till I thought

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, My Mind was going numb -

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

And then I heard them lift a Box
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
And creak across my Soul

With those same Boots of Lead, again,

Then Space - began to toll, Till the wind became a whirlwind,

As all the Heavens were a Bell, Till the sand was blown and sifted

And Being, but an Ear,

Like great snowdrifts o'er the landscape,
And I, and Silence, some strange
Heaping all the shores with Sand Dunes,
Race Wrecked, solitary, here -
Sand Hills of the Nagow Wudjoo!
And then a Plank in Reason, broke,

And I dropped down, and down -

And hit a World, at every plunge,

And Finished knowing - then William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

is also a lyric poem:

I wandered lonely as a cloud

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is another
When all at once I saw a crowd,
example of a lyric poem.
A host, of golden daffodils;
Written in 1966, the poem contains many
different chapters. Chapter 11, for example, Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
covers Hiwatha's Wedding-Feast.
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

An excerpt from this chapter tells the story of Continuous as the stars that shine
the wedding, including a special dance:
And twinkle on the milky way,
First he danced a solemn measure, They stretched in never-ending line

Very slow in step and gesture, Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

In and out among the pine-trees,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Through the shadows and the sunshine,
The waves beside them danced; but they

Treading softly like a panther. Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

Then more swiftly and still swifter,
In such a jocund company:
Whirling, spinning round in circles,
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought

Leaping o'er the guests assembled, What wealth the show to me had brought:

Eddying round and round the wigwam, For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

Till the leaves went whirling with him,
They flash upon that inward eye
Till the dust and wind together
Which is the bliss of solitude;

Swept in eddies round about him. And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

Then along the sandy margin
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Love is Not Love at
Of the lake, the Big-Sea-Water,
All" is another example of lyric poetry:

On he sped with frenzied gestures, Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink

Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;

Stamped upon the sand, and tossed it
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
Wildly in the air around him;
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, After the white-gray sails, taut
to their spars and ropes,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;

Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves,
hastening, lifting up their
necks,

Pinned down by pain and moaning for release, Tending in ceaseless flow
Or nagged by want past resolution's power,
toward the track of the ship:
I might be driven to sell your love for peace, Waves of the ocean, bubbling
Or trade the memory of this night for food. and gurgling, blithely prying,
It well may be. I do not think I would. Waves, undulating waves
liquid, uneven, emulous waves,
Toward that whirling current,
From Visions
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) laughing and buoyant, with
curves,
Being one day at my window all alone,
Where the great Vessel, sailing
So manie strange things happened me to see,
As much as it grieveth me to thinke thereon.
and tacking, displaced the
At my right hand a hynde appeard to mee, surface;
So faire as mote the greatest god delite;
Two eager dogs did her pursue in chace.
Of which the one was blacke, the other white:
With deadly force so in their cruell race

They pincht the haunches of that gentle beast,

That at the last, and in short time, I spide,

Under a rocke, where she alas, opprest,
Fell to the ground, and there untimely dide.
Cruell death vanquishing so noble beautie
Oft makes me wayle so hard a desire.

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.
- Edward Lear

Peace In The Summer Time

By Suh Joon Kim

Sea breeze blows ahead

The book flows and the sun glows
Perfect summer day

After the Sea-Ship by Walt

Whitman
After the Sea-Shipafter the
whistling winds;