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Free Verse Poem

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Free verse poems....

a)

Follow rules of a haiku.

b)

Have more than 10 lines.

c)

Have no specific requirements.

d)

Have to have at least 5 stanzas.

3.

Who is the poet of "Song of Myself?"

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Erza Pound

c)

William Carlos Williams

d)

Walt Whitman

4.

Who wrote "A Winter Poem?"

a)

Nikki Giovanni

b)

Walt Whitman

c)

Nikki Giovannni

d)

A Winter Poem

5.

True or False: Free verse poems have no meter.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Or

6.

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

a)

Nowhere, there is just one line.

b)

After you have 5 words.

c)

The poet chooses when to stop the line.

d)

The readers choose when to stop the line.

7.

Can a single word be a line?

a)

No.

b)

Yes.

c)

Not sure.

8.

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

a)

True

b)

False

9.

What is "Winter Poem" mainly about?

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

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

10.

Which of the following is false about free verse poems?

a)

It doesn't have specific requirements.

b)

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

c)

Free verse poems contains patters of rhyme and meter.

d)

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