poetry classification. poems narrative tells a story lyric expresses a poet’s feelings descriptive...
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Poetry Classification
Poems
NarrativeTells a story
LyricExpresses a
poet’s feelings
DescriptiveAn impersonal word painting
Types of Narratives: Epic – a long poem about the deeds of a
traditional or historical hero
Ballads – a story told in song
- often written in QUATRAINS (a stanza of four lines)
Types of Lyrics: Elegy – A tribute to the memory of
someone. The theme deals with death. Ode – poem in praise of someone or
something Sonnet – a 14 line poem with fixed rhyme
and meter
Types of Sonnets: Shakespearian (English)
3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet
abab cdcd efef gg
Petrarchan (Italian)
Octave (8) and Sestet (6)
abbaabba cdecde (sestet may vary in rhyme)