Worksheets"Stop All the Clocks"
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
“Stop All the Clocks” serves as an example of an elegy because it
reflects on death or other solemn, serious issues.
celebrates or honors a person, object, or idea.
expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker.
has 14 lines and a set rhyme scheme.
The poem roughly demonstrates iambic pentameter because it has
4 metrical feet and 8 syllables each line.
5 metrical feet and 10 syllables each line.
7 metrical feet and 14 syllables each line.
10 metrical feet and 20 syllables each line.
The poem has which rhyme scheme?
abab cdcd efef ghgh
aabb ccdd eeff gghh
abab cdcd efef gg
Auden uses iambic pentameter and rhyme scheme to mimic the sound of “muffled drum,” which creates the sense of
time standing still.
jubilation while at a holiday parade marching through town.
mourning, lamentation, or bereavement during a funeral procession.
The speaker refers to himself as
I.
W.H. Auden.
no one.
the North.
“Stop all the clocks” suggests the speaker wants to
stop time, go back, possibly stop living.
not wake up, forget.
stay forever in the moment.
“Cut off the telephone” suggests the speaker
feels unhappy, withdrawn, hopeless, despondent.
feels sad because she failed to pay her phone bill.
wants to be left alone.
In line 6, the capitalization of “He” and “Dead”
marks the beginning of a sentence.
emphasizes the significance, or importance, of the speaker's great loss.
indicates that they are proper nouns.
“Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead” serves as an example of
metaphor.
simile.
irony.
personification.
“He was my North, my South, my East and West” suggests the speaker’s beloved
told the speaker what to do all the time so now she feels lost.
gave the speaker’s life meaning and direction.
was the speaker’s entire world.
“My working week and Sunday rest” suggests the speaker’s beloved was
her everything, her labor of love, her sanctuary.
why she woke up in the morning.
the one with whom she spent all her time.
Comparing her beloved to a “song” serves as an example of
simile.
metaphor.
analogy.
personification.
“Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun” suggests death
has put out the speaker's hopes, dreams, joy.
literally turns out all the lights.
has made the speaker want to shut everything out.
The tone seems
somber; despondent.
nostalgic; overly sentimental.
tranquil; serene.
jubilant; optimistic.
