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Lyric

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A Lyric (from the Greek) is a song sung with a lyre. Now, it is commonly used to mean a song of no defined length or structure.

A lyric poem is one that expresses a subjective, personal point of view.

 I would be the Lyric
 Ever on the lip,
 Rather than the Epic
 Memory lets slip.
   —Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Lyrics are the written words in a song.

Lyric is also a classification of the human voice in classical singing. The adjective describes a quality and range at the upper end of the given voice part, e.g. lyric soprano.

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