Meter Eater
Stinky Feet
Soupy Sonnets
Accentualization
Poetry Grab Bag
100
The most common meter used in sonnets.
What is Pentameter?
100
These 2 comprise rising, or happy feet. :)
What are Iamb and Anapest?
100
ABBA ABBA, but sometimes ACCA.
What is a Petrarchan Sonnet?
100
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater!
What is Trochee or Trochaic?
100
5 - 7 - 5.
What is a haiku?
200
The Witches' scene in MacBeth.
What is Tetrameter?
200
It's slippery out there! These two feet are falling...
What are Trochee and Dactyl?
200
These two sonnet forms could be heroes (with their couplets, of course).
What are Spenserian and Shakespearean Sonnets?
200
Rock! Den! Cave! Glen!
What is Spondee or Spondaic?
200
Author of hundreds of numbered sonnets.
What is Shakespeare?
300
I'm not spellbound; I just have 6 feet.
What is Hexameter?
300
The exclamation point of feet!!!
What is Spondee?
300
EE DCDC CBCB BABA if you .IT ABOUT THINK
What is a Spenserian Sonnet?
300
Like the wolf in the fold...
What is Anapest?
300
Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is Blank Verse?
400
9 Syllables make this meter complete.
What is Trimeter?
400
The 2 tri-syllabic feet.
What are Dactyl and Anapest?
400
The turning point in a sonnet, called THIS, is usually found in THIS line.
What is the Volta, and in line 9?
400
Rage, Goddess, Sing the rage, Paleus' Son...
What is Dactyl or Dactylic?
400
AUTHOR of THIS type of sonnet, "The World is Too Much With Us"
Who is Wordsworth, and what is Petrarchan?
500
14 beats per line, Trochee style.
What is Heptameter?
500
Number of Dactyls in an Octameter line.
What is eight?
500
The number of quatrains that is equal to the first part of the Petrarchan Sonnet, called THIS.
What is two quatrains, or Octave?
500
Football! Baseball! but not Lacrosse!
What is Trochee or Trochaic?
500
Spenser's first name.
What is Edmund?
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