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Types of Verse
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100
A foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is an iamb?
100
This poet wrote the poem that ends: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'
Who is John Keats?
100
These two poets both wrote poems entitled "The Fish."
Who are Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop?
100
This type of verse counts both stresses and syllables.
What is accentual-syllabic verse?
100
The sonnet was invented in this country.
What is Italy?
200
A foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
What is a trochee?
200
This poet wrote a sonnet that begins: Avenge, O Lord, the slaughter'd saints, whose bones / Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold,
Who is John Milton?
200
This poet wrote a poem called "Considering the Snail."
Who is Thom Gunn?
200
This kind of verse counts syllables but not stresses.
What is syllabic verse?
200
This long poem by Robert Hayden centers on the slave trade.
What is "Middle Passage"?
300
A poetic foot consisting of two stressed syllables.
What is a spondee?
300
This poet wrote the sonnet that ends: For sweetest things smell sourest by their deeds; / Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
This is the dominant sound in Marianne Moore's "To a Giraffe."
What is "L"?
300
This type of verse counts stresses, but not syllables.
What is accentual verse?
300
These are the three types of syllables.
What are open, closed, and in-between?
400
A poetic foot consisting of two unstressed syllables.
What is a pyrrhic foot?
400
This poem calls "labour": blossoming or dancing where / The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
Who is William Butler Yeats?
400
This is what the mother skunk in Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour" sticks her head into.
What is a cup of sour cream?
400
This type of verse counts neither syllables nor stresses, but rather uses other poetic devices, such as enjambment, to achieve systemic complexity.
What is "free" verse?
400
This type of meter features alternating lines of 8 syllables and 6 syllables.
What is ballad meter?
500
A poetic foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
What is a dactyl?
500
This poet wrote a poem that ends with: trilobite trilobites
Who is Clark Coolidge?
500
This is what the speaker of Elizabeth Bishop's "The Armadillo" thinks "dreamlike mimicry" is.
What is "too pretty"?
500
All of Shakespeare's sonnets are written in this type of verse.
What is accentual-syllabic verse?
500
This type of poem originated in Persia and features the author's name in the last line.
What is a ghazal?