Metre

Question 1

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day

Answer 1

Iambic pentameter

unstressed-stressed pattern repeated five times in a line

Question 2

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house

Answer 2

Anapestic tetrameter

A pattern of unstressed-unstressed-stressed is repeated four times

Question 3

Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary

Answer 3

Trochaic octameter (and alliteration and assonance)

Stressed-unstressed pattern repeated eight times

Question 4

Rousing the girl in her sleep in the night, from the fear of the bed tick

Answer 4

Dactylic hexameter

Stressed-unstressed-unstressed pattern x 6 (last foot is spondee)

Question 5

Following Tinkerbell

Answer 5

Anapestic dimeter

unstressed-unstressed-stressed pattern repeated twice

Question 6

Sit down

Answer 6

Spondaic monometer

stressed-stressed pattern repeated once a line

Question 7

I would have to be you

Answer 7

Pyrrich trimeter

unstressed-unstressed foot repeated thrice

Question 8

I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:

Answer 8

Iambic heptameter

Unstressed-stressed pattern repeated seven times