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GCSE English Literature · key term
A poem expressing a speaker’s personal feelings, often with musical qualities.
Used by Edexcel and OCR
Paper 2
A short poem expressing feelings or an emotional response, often with a musical quality.
Revise: She Walks in BeautyThe poem is a lyric, concentrating on an admiring emotional response. It has three six-line stanzas. Each follows the same alternating rhyme pattern, ABABAB, using different rhyme sounds in each stanza.
A short poem centred on a speaker’s personal feelings or thoughts.
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A short poem expressing a speaker’s personal feelings, often with musical qualities created by rhythm and rhyme.
A poem expressing personal feelings or reflections, often through a single speaker.
Paper 2
Revise: A SongA Song is a lyric: it centres on personal feeling and has musical qualities. Its six quatrains use an ABAB rhyme scheme. In stanza I, ‘store’ rhymes with ‘more’, and ‘impart’ with ‘heart’.
A poem expressing a speaker’s personal feelings or reflections.
