Types of Poetry

Narrative
Narrative is a type of poem that tells a story

EXAMPLE
Aver Maria
by Alfred Austin

In the ages of Faith, before the day
When the men were too proud to weep or pray,
There stood in a red-roofed Brenton town
Snugly nestled 'twixt sea dan down,
A chapel for simple souls to meet,
Nightly, and sing with voices sweet,
Ave Maria!
(I only copied part of the poem)

Ballad
Ballad is a poem that is like a folk tale and it can sometime be sung as a song

EXAMPLE 

Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa 

by Hilaire Belloc

I

Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold
And very Regent of the untroubled sky,
Whom in a dream St. Hilda did behold
And heard a woodland music passing by:
You shall receive me when the clouds are high
With evening and the sheep attain the fold.
This is the faith that I have held and hold,
And this is that in which I mean to die.
( I only copied part of the poem)

Epic
Epic is a poem that talks about heroes or heroine

EXAMPLE
The Iliad Odyssey: The Summary Of A Manby Terence George Craddock
Odysseus indeed in spoils of war
with cunning brave heart, cleverly won,
many a fair desirable noble women
while his wife loyally waited, on Ithaca,
 (I only copy part of the poem)

Lyrics
Lyrics is a poem that is spoke by 1 person about the feelings they have.

EXAMPLE
My Heart Sings
by Joe Fazio 

In the song of life, all lyrics need a melody.

You are the lyric and you are the melody.
You are the lyric of my heart and of my soul.

The beauty of the rose, speaks a lyric of love.
Love, speaks a lyric of you.

The silent lyric of goodness, echoes from within you.
My heart, speaks the lyric of love...to only you.

Let the words...the lyric...that bind, pass between us.
Let the lyric, of you...of me...be as one.

A million words I can speak of you and the lyrics
would be the same...I love you now. I always will