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The lyric became the dominant mode of French poetry during this period. [23]: 15 For Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire was the last example of lyric poetry "successful on a mass scale" in Europe. [24] In Russia, Aleksandr Pushkin exemplified a rise of lyric poetry during the 18th and early 19th centuries. [25]
Lyrics can be studied from an academic perspective. For example, some lyrics can be considered a form of social commentary. Lyrics often contain political, social, and economic themes—as well as aesthetic elements—and so can communicate culturally significant messages. These messages can be explicit, or implied through metaphor or symbolism.
Traditional blues verses in folk-music tradition have also been called floating lyrics or maverick stanzas.Floating lyrics have been described as “lines that have circulated so long in folk communities that tradition-steeped singers call them instantly to mind and rearrange them constantly, and often unconsciously, to suit their personal and community aesthetics”.
An example is the Anuṣṭubh metre found in the great epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, which has exactly eight syllables in each line, of which only some are specified as to length. Syllabo-quantitative ( varṇavṛtta ) metres depend on syllable count, but the light-heavy patterns are fixed.
Example: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray. Light: whimsical poems Limerick; Nonsense; Double dactyl; Lyric. Canzone: a lyric poem originating in medieval Italy and France and usually consisting of hendecasyllabic lines with end-rhyme. Epithalamium; Madrigal: a song or short lyric poem intended for multiple singers.
Example: An Acrostic (1829) by Edgar Allan Poe. [5] act An act is a major division of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, or musical theatre, consisting of one or more scenes. [6] [7] adage An adage expresses a well-known and simple truth in a few words. [8] (Similar to aphorism and proverb.) adjective
Songs that use the same harmony (chords) for the verse and chorus, such as the twelve bar blues, though the melody is different and the lyrics feature different verses and a repeated chorus, are in simple verse–chorus form. Examples include: "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" by Big Joe Turner (1954) [8]
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other.