Poetry Flashcards
1
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“Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry” by Howard Nemerov
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- meter: not consistent but Iambic tetrameter
1
Q
“Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare
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- meter: iambic pentameter (note; most of Shakespeare is iambic pentameter)
2
Q
“Sonnet 130” by William Shakespeare
A
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- meter: iambic pentameter
3
Q
“I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud” by William Wordsworth
A
- meter: iambic tetrameter
4
Q
“My Heart Leaps Up” by William Wordsworth
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- meter: iambic tetrameter
5
Q
“The Fly” by William Blake”
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- meter: iambic tetrameter
6
Q
“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden
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- meter: free verse
7
Q
“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
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- meter: iambic pentameter
8
Q
“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost
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- meter: iambic pentameter
9
Q
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
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meter: iambic tetrameter
10
Q
“Harlem” by Langston Hughes
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meter: free verse
11
Q
“Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes
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meter: iambic meter, free verse rhythm
12
Q
“Comin Thro’ the Rye” by Robert Burns
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meter: iambic tetrameter
