05.02 Poetic Foundations ASAP please
Marcus is reading a biography about a famous jazz musician. He decides he'd like to write a longer narrative poem about the musician's life that rhymes. Which poetic form best suits his purpose?
Ballad
Haiku
Free verse
Limerick
Read the poem. Then, answer the question that follows.
O moon of tonight
Let me rest my head on you
And hear my life sing.
Which poetic form does the poem reflect?
Ballad
Haiku
Sonnet
Villanelle
Read the poem "Knowledge" by Louise Bogan. Then, answer the question that follows.
Now that I know
How passion warms little
Of flesh in the mould,
And treasure is brittle,—
I'll lie here and learn
How, over their ground,
Trees make a long shadow
And a light sound.
Which of the following descriptions best defines the structure of Bogan's poem?
Two couplets
Two quatrains
Two octaves
Two tercets
ead the poem "A Jelly-Fish" by Marianne Moore. Then, answer the question that follows.
Visible, invisible,
A fluctuating charm,
An amber-colored amethyst
Inhabits it; your arm
Approaches, and
It opens and
It closes;
You have meant
To catch it,
And it shrivels;
You abandon
Your intent—
It opens, and it
Closes and you
Reach for it—
The blue
Surrounding it
Grows cloudy, and
It floats away
From you.
Which poetic form does Moore use in her poem?
Ballad
Free verse
Sonnet
Villanelle
Ronan is reading a poem that repeats the same two lines throughout its six stanzas. It has a strict rhyme scheme. Which poetic form is being used?
Ballad
Free verse
Sonnet
Villanelle
Read the first stanza of the ballad "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Then, answer the question that follows.
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
11221
AABBA
ABCDA
12342
mara wants to write a poem about a recent change or shift in her feelings. She wants the poem to have 14 lines, a strict meter, a specific rhyme scheme, and a couplet at the end. Which poetic form should she use?
Ballad
Haiku
Sonnet
Villanelle
