Round 5- Poems Flashcards
1
Q
In the Robert Browning poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin, which colours make up the Piper’s costume?
A
Red and Yellow
2
Q
Who wrote the nonsense poem Jabberwocky?
A
Lewis Carrol
3
Q
How many lines are there in a standard sonnet?
A
14
4
Q
According to the first line of T S Eliot’s poem The Wasteland, which is the cruellest month?
A
April
5
Q
How many lines are there in a limerick?
A
5
6
Q
Which poet was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995?
A
Seamus Heaney
7
Q
How many syllables are there in an iambic pentameter?
A
10
8
Q
In 2006 John Steffler was appointed Parliamentary Poet Laureate of which country?
A
Canada
9
Q
A Japanese haiku poem has how many syllables?
A
17
10
Q
Which flowers inspired William Wordsworth’s poem ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’?
A
Daffodils
