Types of Poems

1. Lyric: subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter which reveals the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression.
Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
William Blake, "The Lamb," "The Tiger"
Emily Dickinson, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
Langston Hughes, "Dream Deferred"
Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
Walt Whitman, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
2. Narrative: nondramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or narrative.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan"
T. S. Eliot, "Journey of the Magi…