FORGOTTEN

Question 1

Villanelle

Answer 1

A poem of five pentameter tercets rhyming aba followed by a quatrain rhyming abaa

Question 2

Ode

Answer 2

No set form, defined by content: lofty or sublime, often uses apostrophe, exalted tone

Question 3

Lyric poetry

Answer 3

Originally meant for musical accompaniment, now is a short poem expressing feeling

Question 4

Dramatic poem

Answer 4

Speaker addresses silent listener

Question 5

Ballad

Answer 5

A popular narrative song passed down orally. In the English tradition, it usually follows a form of rhymed (abcb) quatrains alternating four-stress and three-stress lines. Folk (or traditional) ballads are anonymous and recount tragic, comic, or heroic stories with emphasis on a central dramatic event; Beginning in the Renaissance, poets have adapted the conventions of the folk ballad for their own original compositions.

Question 6

Ars poetica

Answer 6

A poem about how to write poetry

Question 7

Sestina

Answer 7

A pentameter poem consisting of six stanzas of six lines with repeated end words plus a three line coda (the envoi)