Elements of Poetry - REVIEW Quiz

Refer to the grouping of lines or the succession of the lines of a poem.

• Lines

• Prosa

• Stanza

• Poetry

It Matters Not

I follow on along a ledge;

below a swirling river’s edge.

In front of me, the canyon’s yawn.

Along a ledge, I follow on.

I see no hue when fog congeals.

Oh, doom of one who no more feels!

The moon has fled, as so have you.

When fog congeals, I see no hue

What kind of stanza is shown here?

• Couplet

• Quatrain

• Tercet

• Cinquian

It is a form of poetry that Shows metrical pattern, has specific number of lines, and has rhyme scheme.

• Metered Poetry

• Free Poetry

• Classical Poetry

• Contemporary Poetry

The Pool

BY H.D.

Are you alive?

I touch you.

You quiver like a sea-fish.

I cover you with my net.

What are you—banded one?

Is an example of what kind of poem?

• Metered Poetry

• Free Poetry

• Classical Poetry

• Contemporary Poetry

Tyger, Tyger, burning bright

In the forests of the night

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry

In what distant deep or skies

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand dare seize the fire?

What kind of rhyme was shown above?

• Internal Rhyme

• A-A-B-B Rhyme

• A-A-B-B-C-C Rhyme

• End Rhyme

What rhythm is highlighted in the example above?

• Trochee

• Iamb

• Spondee

• Dactyl

What rhythm is highlighted in the example above?

• Trochee

• Iamb

• Spondee

• Dactyl

What rhythm is highlighted in the example above?

• Trochee

• Iamb

• Spondee

• Dactyl

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

O, well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O, well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay!

What poem tempo is shown above?

• Trochee

• Iamb

• Spondee

• Dactyl

What poem tempo is shown above?

• Anapest

• Iamb

• Spondee

• None out of the above