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Students analyze how rhyme, meter, lines, and stanzas shape real poems.
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Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky": "’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves\nDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;\nAll mimsy were the borogoves,\nAnd the mome raths outgrabe." Which rhyme scheme?
Langston Hughes's "Dreams": "Hold fast to dreams\nFor if dreams die\nLife is a broken-winged bird\nThat cannot fly." Which rhyme scheme?
Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody! Who are you?": "How dreary – to be – Somebody!\nHow public – like a Frog –\nTo tell one's name – the livelong June –\nTo an admiring Bog!" Which rhyme scheme?
Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky": "And, as in uffish thought he stood,\nThe Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,\nCame whiffling through the tulgey wood,\nAnd burbled as it came!" Which rhyme scheme?
Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken": "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,\nAnd sorry I could not travel both\nAnd be one traveler, long I stood\nAnd looked down one as far as I could\nTo where it bent in the undergrowth;" Which label fits?
Maya Angelou's "Life Doesn't Frighten Me": "Shadows on the wall\nNoises down the hall\nLife doesn't frighten me at all." Which rhyme-scheme label fits these three lines best?
In Carl Sandburg's "Fog," "The fog comes\non little cat feet." What does the line break after "comes" do?
In Langston Hughes's "Dreams," "Life is a broken-winged bird\nThat cannot fly." What does the line break after "bird" do?
In Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody! Who are you?": "How public – like a Frog –\nTo tell one's name – the livelong June –" What does the break after "Frog" do?
In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,\nAnd sorry I could not travel both" What does the break after "wood" do?
In Robert Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee," "The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,\nBut the queerest they ever did see\nWas that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge" What does the break after "see" do?
Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken": "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,\nAnd sorry I could not travel both" Carl Sandburg's "Fog": "The fog comes\non little cat feet." Which has the more regular beat?
Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky": "And, as in uffish thought he stood,\nThe Jabberwock, with eyes of flame" Langston Hughes's "Mother to Son": "Well, son, I'll tell you:\nLife for me ain't been no crystal stair." Which is more metered?
Robert Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee": "There are strange things done in the midnight sun\nBy the men who moil for gold;" Carl Sandburg's "Fog": "It sits looking\nover harbor and city" Which is metered?
Langston Hughes's "Dreams": "Hold fast to dreams\nFor if dreams die\nLife is a broken-winged bird\nThat cannot fly." Hughes's "Mother to Son": "It's had tacks in it,\nAnd splinters," Which has a more regular pattern?
Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody! Who are you?": "How dreary – to be – Somebody!\nHow public – like a Frog –" Carl Sandburg's "Fog": "on silent haunches\nand then moves on." Which sounds more metered?
In Maya Angelou's "Life Doesn't Frighten Me," the line "Life doesn't frighten me at all" returns after scary images. What is this repeated part called?
In Langston Hughes's "Dreams," what is this stanza called? "Hold fast to dreams\nFor if dreams die\nLife is a broken-winged bird\nThat cannot fly."
In Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," which part of the poem is "Beware the Jabberwock, my son!"?
In Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody! Who are you?": "I'm Nobody! Who are you?\nAre you – Nobody – too?" What do these two lines form?
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