Poetry Notes Worksheet

Narrative Poetry: Tells a story and is usually longer than other types of poems.

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Dramatic Poetry: Presents characters, often in tense situations, who speak to silent listeners, to themselves, or directly to the reader.

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Lyric Poetry: A short poem that expresses a speaker’s thoughts and emotions.

1. Short: shorter than an epic. I can be any where from 2 lines long to 50 lines long and it can still be lyric. It expresses the speaker's thoughts. Personal ideas that the speaker has.

2.   It expresses the speaker's emotions. It can be about something they admire. It is the most common form of poem.

Sonnet: A lyric poem of fourteen lines.  It is written in iambic pentameter.  There are two types of sonnets: Shakespearean and Petrarchan sonnets, and Petrarchan or Italian sonnets.

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