Free Verses

True or false: A free verse poem only has three stanzas.

• True

• False

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Free verse poems....

• Follow rules of a haiku.

• Have more than 10 lines.

• Have no specific requirements.

• Have to have at least 5 stanzas.

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Who is the poet of "Song of Myself?"

• Langston Hughes

• Erza Pound

• William Carlos Williams

• Walt Whitman

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Who wrote "A Winter Poem?"

• Nikki Giovanni

• Walt Whitman

• Nikki Giovannni

• A Winter Poem

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True or False: Free verse poems have no meter.

• True

• False

• Or

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When should you stop the line in a free verse poem?

• Nowhere, there is just one line.

• After you have 5 words.

• The poet chooses when to stop the line.

• The readers choose when to stop the line.

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Can a single word be a line?

• No.

• Yes.

• Not sure.

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True or False: Free verse poems follow a specific beat.

• True

• False

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What is "Winter Poem" mainly about?

• How the speaker loves when it is summertime, but is upset when it is winter.

• The speaker talks about the different seasons, and how people can change just like the weather.

• The speaker loves playing around in the snow and making snow angels.

• How the speaker doesn't like the different seasons and prefers to be a flower.

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Which of the following is false about free verse poems?

• It doesn't have specific requirements.

• Free verse poems has to have an artistic expression of rhythm.

• Free verse poems contains patters of rhyme and meter.

• Free verse doesn't follow regular poem standards, it instead follows normal-speech kind-of tone.

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