WorksheetsQ3- HW1 Poetic Forms and Structures
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
What is the rhyme scheme of the following?
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
When the traveler in the dark
Thanks you for thy tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.
When the blazing sun is gone,
And he nothing shines upon,
ABAB CCDD EE
ABBA CDCD
AABB CCDD EE
ABCD ABCD EFG EFG
Which of the following lines is/are a/an example(s) of trochaic tetrameter?
"The sun sets in the west"
"By the shores of Gitche Gumee"
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"
"Hope is the thing with feathers"
Which form of poetry is known for its humorous feature?
Limerick
Haiku
Sonnet
Free Verse
Which of the following is NOT a common rhyme scheme in poetry?
ABAB
AABB
ABCD
ABBA
Which of the following is an enclosed rhyme pattern?
AABB
ABBA
ABAB
AABBA
