Lyric Definition | What is Lyric? - PoetrySoup
Definition
[n] a short poem of songlike quality
[n] the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"
[adj] expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance"
[adj] (music; of a singer or singing voice) being light in volume and modest in range; "a lyric soprano"
[adj] (poetry) "lyric poetry"
[adj] (music) relating to or being musical drama; "the lyric stage"
[v] write lyrics for (a song)
A poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet.
Synonyms
coloratura, emotional, language, lyric poem, lyrical, words
See Also...
antistrophe, compose, indite, love lyric, ode, pen, poem, relyric, song, strophe, text, textual matter, verse form, write
Related Terms
alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, book, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, dulcet, eclogue, elegy, English sonnet, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, graceful, haiku, Horatian ode, idio
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