Meter, Rhyme Scheme, and Forms of Poetry Quiz
Criseyde was this lady name a-right;
As to my dome, in al Troyes citee
Nas noon so fair, for passing every wight
So aungellyk was hir natyf beautee,
That lyk a thing immortal semed she,
As doth an hevenish parfit creature,
That doun were sent in scorning of nature.
In what form is this stanza by Chaucer?- Rhyme royal stanzas have seven lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming ababbcc.
Which of the following poetic forms has the most lines?
- Haiku have 3 lines; limericks have 5; triolets have 8; sonnets have 14.
There once was a man from Peru
Who dreamt he was eating his shoe.
He awoke in a fright
In the middle of the night
And found it was perfectly true.
What kind of poem is this?
In what way does an Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnet differ from the English (Shakespearean) form?
- Both forms have 14 lines, and the language doesn't matter; the names refer to where each form flourished. An Italian sonnet has an eight-line section (an octave) rhyming abbaabba, followed by a six-line section (a sestet), which can rhyme in several ways. An English sonnet has three four-line sections (quantrains) rhyming abab/cdcd/efef followed by a couplet, rhyming gg.
Since I've stopped completing dinner,
My waist has slowly gotten thinner.
I think this diet is a winner!
What are these lines an example of?
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.
What kind of meter is used in these lines by Dr. Seuss?- In Green Eggs and Ham, Sam-I-Am generally speaks in trochees (DUM-da), while the narrator generally answers in iambs (da-DUM). They echo off one another.
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
These lines, from Joyce Kilmer's "Trees," are an example of what?
I love this website more than collard greens;
It tells me everything I'd like to know
About the world, the history of jeans,
Each country, city, mountain, and plateau.
Their homework center has some nifty stuff.
The periodic table's pretty cool.
It's not just useless filler, mindless fluff;
It helps me with the things I learn in school.
The quizzes that it has are lots of fun!
On holidays, and books on Harry Potter.
I'm working on one now-- I'm halfway done!
I'll be a credit to my alma mater.
But just as I am looking up "commuter,"
My bedtime comes. I'll shut off my computer.
What kind of poem is this?
A typical Emily Dickinson poem goes like this:
I felt a cleaving in my mind
As if my brain had split;
I tried to match it, seam by seam,
But could not make them fit.
The thought behind I strove to join
Unto the thought before,
But sequence ravelled out of reach
Like balls upon a floor.
What kind of meter is this?- Common meter is also used in "Amazing Grace" and "The Yellow Rose of Texas," which is why you can sing most Dickinson poems to either tune.
Five syllables start
Seven syllables follow
Five syllables end
What kind of poem is this?- It's not a very good haiku, but that's the basic form.
