Q3 - CW1 Poetry Forms and Structures

What is the rhyme scheme of the following ballad?
In days of old, when swords would clash,
A knight set forth in armor brash.
He rode beneath the moon’s pale light,
A shadow swift, a ghost in flight.

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABCB

• ABBA

Which of the following is a characteristic of free verse poetry?

• Regular rhyme scheme

• Consistent meter

• No set rhyme or meter

• Five-line stanzas

How many lines are there in a traditional limerick?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

What is the syllable pattern of a haiku?

• 5-7-5

• 7-5-7

• 5-5-7

• 7-7-5

Which of the following is an example of a couplet?

• A stanza with four lines

• Two lines of verse that rhyme

• A poem with no rhyme

• A stanza with six lines

What is the meter of a line written in iambic pentameter?

• Five iambs per line

• Four trochees per line

• Six dactyls per line

• Three anapests per line

Which of the following describes trochaic tetrameter?

• Four iambs per line

• Four trochees per line

• Five trochees per line

• Three iambs per line

What is an iamb in poetry?

• A metrical unit with two syllables, stressed followed by unstressed

• A metrical unit with two syllables, unstressed followed by stressed

• A metrical unit with three syllables, all stressed

• A type of rhyme scheme used in free verse

Which of the following is a stressed syllable?

• The first syllable in "banana"

• The second syllable in "apple"

• The first syllable in "table"

• The second syllable in "giraffe"

What is the rhyme scheme of the following?
The sky grew dark, the winds ran wild
A hush fell deep upon the land
No whispering trees, no waves on sand
Like nature was a frightened child

• ABAB

• ABBA

• AABB

• ABC