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1. Lecture 2 – Types of Poetry
1.Narrative
2.Dramatic
3.Lyric

2. Narrative Poetry – tells us stories
Ballads
- tells story usually in 4 line stanza with a simple rhyme scheme
- An anonymous communal creation transmitted orally from one person to another Arranged in
quatrains with a rhyme scheme ABAB
The ring is on my hand,
And the wreath is on my brow;
Satin and jewels grand
And I am happy now.
(Edgar Allan Poe)

3. Dramatic Poetry
• Verse composition for theatrical performance
• Dramatic monologue – a fictional/historical character speaks to a silent audience
• Here you are again,
Standing outside my front door.
Here you are again,
Saying you love me once more.
Here you are again,
Telling me I’m the only one you adore.
Here I am again,
Running back into your arms not caring for what lies in store.
Here I am again,
Allowing your kiss to warm my hearts core.
Here I am again,
Running blind falling for your lure.
Here we are again,
Trying this for a third time,
But it doesn’t matter,
With you nothing else matters.
And when its over it would be worth all the pain.
Because I’m in love with you. And love is sacrifice.
I’m willing to sacrifice for you as long as you are able to say the same.
So finally I see you love me too.

4. Lyric Poetry
• Short poem – contrast to narrative poems does not mean to tell a story.
- expresses mood, feelings
- There is only one speaker in a lyric poem, example sonnet of Shakespeare
• 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.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
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5. Blank verse
• Unrhymed verse in iambic pentameter
• Iambic pentameter is used in traditional English poetry.
• Has a consistent meter (sound pattern) with 10 syllable in each line
(penta-5, meter-rhythm)
• An example of iambic pentameter in sonnet 18
‘Shall I /com/pare /thee to/ a sum/mer’s day?’

6. Canto
• A part in long narrative poems. Poets divide their poems for better understanding.
Consist of five or more line. A stanza is canto.
Concrete poems
A concrete poem is written in which the shape of the words on the page matches the
subject of the poem. Sometimes, concrete poetry is called "shape" poetry. Uses visual
images to understand a poem.
Example
Stairs
I
climb.
Every day.
A different priority.
Slowly making progress
toward success, success, success.
No time to stop, to rest, to appreciate
the small things around me-the air, the flowers,
even the people I meet are standing in the way of the climb

7. Couplet
A pair of lines in a verse. They have the same rhythm
Example
She was a little tense
The notice made no sense
lightening, thunder, all around
Soon the rain falls on the ground
Elegy- poems which reflect death or other solemn incident
Epic- a long narrative poetry about the deeds of a hero- usually events that shaped a
nation history.
Ode- originally meant to be sung addressed to a specific person
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8. • Sonnet- poetry of 14 lines
2 forms- Italian (Petrarchan)- 8 lines
-Shakespearean sonnet- 3 quatrains (12 lines)
Stanza – a group of lines which forms a unit within a poem
- a verse