Lyric Poetry

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Lyric Poetry

• Poetry that expresses a speakers personal
  thoughts and feelings. Lyric poems are usually
  short and musical. This broad category covers
  may poetic types and styles, including free verse
  and rhymed poetry.

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A Red. Red Roseby Robert Burns

• And fare thee weel, my only love,
• And fare thee weel a while!
• And I will come again, my love,
• Tho it were ten thousand mile!
• How many stanzas?
• Identify rhyme scheme.
• Identify the repetition.
• How can the phenomena in
• stanza three occur?
• 5. Why does the author use such exaggeration?

• O, my love is like a red, red rose,
• Thats newly sprung in June.
• O, my love is like the melody,
• Thats sweetly playd in tune.
• As fair art thou, my bonny lass,
• So deep in love am I,
• And I will love thee still, my dear,
• Till a the seas gang dry.
• Till a the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks
  melt wi the sun!
• And I will love thee still, my dear,
• While the sands o life shall run.