In his review of "The Don" for About.com, Henry Adaso described the song as "the type of lyrical exercise Nas only throws down once or twice per album", and that songs such as "The Don" gave a case for Nas' inclusion "as one of hip-hop's all-time greats", also picking up on his "assured" boasts and the "quiet confidence" enveloped in his tone.
There is further evidence of this in the structure of the poems because Keats combines two different types of lyrical poetry in an experimental way: the odal hymn and the lyric of questioning voice that responds to the odal hymn.
In tone and attitude, however, they still tend to fall into two types: personal, lyrical statements that invite us into private meditative worlds, and more abstract modernist works that affect an emotional detachment and aesthetic objectivity.
As a whole, the odes represent Keats's attempt to create a new type of short lyrical poem, which influenced later generations.
Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64, concerto for violin and orchestra by Felix Mendelssohn, one of the most lyrical and flowing works of its type and one of the most frequently performed of all violin concerti.
Constant Lambert said that its four movements – nearly all of them slow, lyrical, and strange – have a "particular type of grey, reflective, English-landscape mood [that] outweighed the exigencies of symphonic form".
Each type uses the same basic lyrical structure, differing only in kind and degree of emotions portrayed.
Music critic Krisex wrote of Nas's lyricism, stating "The L.E.S.-produced song woos heavy rotation while the MC makes the type of passionate perusals that leave lyrical aficionadeos genuflecting at his mike stand".
Most zarzuelas incorporate vocal ensemble numbers (such as trios and duets), lyrical solo songs known as romanzas, various types of local folk musics, and dance.
