Nouns
Identify the nouns in the following lines of poetry:
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
Nouns:
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
Identify the verbs in the following lines of poetry:
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down today.
Nothing gold can stay.
From "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
Verbs:
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down today.
Nothing gold can stay.
Identify the pronouns in the following lines of poetry:
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
From "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Pronouns:
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our* cheeks and shades our eyes,—
(Reminder: "Our" is a possessive pronoun.)
Identify the adjectives in the following lines of poetry:
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
From "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron
Adjectives:
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
Careful! "Dark" and "bright" are usually adjectives, but in these lines, they function as a different part of speech. Do you know which it is?
Identify the verbs and adverbs in the following lines of poetry:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
From "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by William Butler Yeats
Verbs and Adverbs:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Note: "Softly" is the only adverb here; the other bolded words are verbs.
Identify the nouns in the following lines of poetry:
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk without having feet.
From "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" by Tupac Shakur
Nouns:
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk without having feet.
Identify the verbs in the following lines of poetry:
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
From "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Verbs:
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
Identify the pronouns in the following lines of poetry:
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep...
From "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allen Poe
Pronouns:
And I hold within my* hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep...
Reminder: "My" is a possessive pronoun.
Identify the adjectives in the following lines of poetry:
I am not cruel, only truthful‚
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles.
From "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath
Adjectives:
I am not cruel, only truthful‚
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles.
Identify the verbs and adverbs in the following lines of poetry:
Sleep peacefully. Your face should
Be serene and beautiful at all hours.
From "Sleep Peacefully" by Alfonsina Storni
Verbs and Adverbs:
Sleep peacefully*. Your face should
Be serene and beautiful at all hours.
Note: "Peacefully" is an adverb, while the other bolded words are verbs.
Identify the nouns in the following lines of poetry:
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
From "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Nouns:
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
Identify the verbs in the following lines of poetry:
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk without having feet.
From "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" by Tupac Shakur
Verbs:
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk without having feet.
Identify the pronouns in the following lines of poetry:
The librarian does not believe what she sees.
Her eyes are sad
and she walks with her hands in her dress.
From "Eating Poetry" by Mark Strand
Pronouns:
The librarian does not believe what she sees.
Her* eyes are sad
and she walks with her hands in her dress.
Reminder: "Her" is a possessive pronoun.
Identify the adjectives in the following lines of poetry:
My clothes were badly rumpled,
and my eyes were glazed and red.
My binder left a three-ring
indentation in my head.
From "Falling Asleep in Class" by Kenn Nesbitt
Adjectives:
My clothes were badly rumpled,
and my eyes were glazed and red.
My binder left a three-ring
indentation in my head.
Identify the verbs and adverbs in the following lines of poetry:
I wander all night in my vision,
Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping...
From "The Sleepers" by Walt Whitman
Verbs and Adverbs:
I wander all night in my vision,
Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping...
Which are verbs? Which are adverbs?
Identify the nouns in the following lines of poetry:
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
From "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allen Poe
Nouns:
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
Identify the verbs in the following lines of poetry:
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
From "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allen Poe
Verbs:
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
Identify the pronouns in the following lines of poetry:
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark
that he barks every time they leave the house.
They must switch him on on their way out.
From "Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House" by Billy Collins
Pronouns:
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark
that he barks every time they leave the house.
They must switch him on on their way out.
Reminder: "His" and "theirs" are possessive pronouns.
Identify the adjectives in the following lines of poetry:
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk
The rain makes running pools in the gutter
From "April Rain Song" by Langston Hughes
Adjectives:
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk
The rain makes running pools in the gutter
Identify the verbs and adverbs in the following lines of poetry:
Very gently – tenderly, almost – as if to the man, to calm him, but in fact to no one, the sea was singing...
From "Almost Tenderly" by Carl Phillips
Verbs and Adverbs:
Very gently – tenderly, almost – as if to the man, to calm him, but in fact to no one, the sea was singing...
Identify the nouns in the following lines of poetry:
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep...
From "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allen Poe
Nouns:
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep...
Identify the verbs in the following lines of poetry:
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep...
From "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allen Poe
Verbs:
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep...
Identify the pronouns in the following lines of poetry:
I pointed to a place where kids had made angels in the snow.
For some reason, I told him that a troop of angels
had been shot and dissolved when they hit the ground.
From "Snow" by Dan Berman
Pronouns:
I pointed to a place where kids had made angels in the snow.
For some reason, I told him that a troop of angels
had been shot and dissolved when they hit the ground.
Identify the adjectives in the following lines of poetry:
When the corn’s all cut and the bright stalks shine
Like the burnished spears of a field of gold;
When the field-mice rich on the nubbins dine,
And the frost comes white and the wind blows cold...
From "The Corn-Stalk Fiddle" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Adjectives:
When the corn's all cut and the bright stalks shine
Like the burnished spears of a field of gold;
When the field-mice rich on the nubbins dine,
And the frost comes white and the wind blows cold...
Identify the verbs and adverbs in the following lines of poetry:
For love of Her—Sweet—countrymen—
Judge tenderly—of Me
From "This is my letter to the World" by Emily Dickinson
Verbs and Adverbs:
For love of Her—Sweet—countrymen—
Judge tenderly—of Me
Which is the verb? Which is the adverb?