Q3- HW1 Poetic Forms and Structures

Which of the following lines is written in iambic pentameter?

• "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary"

• "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

• "Double, double toil and trouble"

• "The woods are lovely, dark and deep"

Identify the line that is an example of trochaic tetrameter.

• "be, or not to be, that is the question"

• "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day"

• "Tyger Tyger, is burning bright"

• "In the room the women come and going"

Which of the following is a characteristic of a sonnet?

• It has 14 lines.

• It is written in free verse.

• It has no specific rhyme scheme.

• It is always written in trochaic tetrameter.

What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABBA

• ABCD

Which of the following lines is NOT written in iambic pentameter?

• "When I do count the clock that tells the time"

• "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"

• "And miles to go before I sleep"

Which form of poetry is known for its 5-7-5 syllable structure?

• Limerick

• Haiku

• Sonnet

• Villanelle

What is the rhyme scheme of a limerick?

• AABBA

• ABAB

• ABCB

• ABBA

Which of the following lines is/are an example(s) of iambic pentameter?

• "Tell me not, in mournful numbers"

• "The way a crow shook down on me"

• "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks"

• "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"

Which of the following is a feature of trochaic tetrameter?

• It consists of five iambs per line.

• It consists of four trochees per line.

• It has no fixed meter.

• It is always unrhymed.

Which form of poetry is typically considered a narration?

• Haiku

• Sonnet

• Limerick

• Ballad