A poem runs fourteen lines of iambic pentameter: three quatrains rhyming abab cdcd efef, then a closing couplet. Which form is it?

A fourteen-line poem states a problem across an opening eight lines rhyming abbaabba, then turns and answers it in a six-line close rhyming cdecde. Which form is it?

A poem tells, across dozens of four-line stanzas that alternate four beats with three and rhyme abcb, the story of a sailor cursed at sea. Which form is it?

A poem runs nineteen lines: five three-line stanzas and a closing quatrain, all built on only two rhymes, with two of the opening lines coming back again and again. Which form is it?

Every line of a long speech in a verse play carries five iambic beats, and no line rhymes with any other. Which form is the speech written in?

A poem reads in full: "so much depends / upon / a red wheel / barrow / glazed with rain / water / beside the white / chickens." Which form is it?

A poem speaks to a nightingale directly for several long stanzas, dwelling on its song in formal, elevated language, and tells no story at all. Which form is it?

A poem mourns a friend who has died young, and moves from open grief toward consolation by its close. Which form is it?

A poem fills twelve books of unrhymed five-beat lines, opens by asking a Muse for help, and follows one hero through a war that decides a whole people's fate. Which form is it?

A sixteen-line poem gives one speaker's feeling in the present moment: no events, no other characters, nothing that happens. Which form is it?

A poem begins, "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time," and keeps addressing that ancient urn directly to the end. Which form is it?

A poem begins, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate:" and after twelve lines closes with a rhymed couplet. Which form is it?

A poem begins, "It is an ancient Mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three." It then tells in short rhymed stanzas how that sailor shot an albatross. Which form is it?

A poem begins, "I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume," and runs on for hundreds of lines. Which form is it?

A poem begins, "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree ..." and a few lines later calls on a heavenly Muse to sing of it. Which form is it?

A poem begins, "They are all gone away, / The House is shut and still, / There is nothing more to say," and ends, "They are all gone away, / There is nothing more to say." Which form is it?

A poem begins, "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, / The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea," and goes on to mourn the villagers buried in a country churchyard. Which form is it?

A poem begins, "When I consider how my light is spent / Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide," and its first eight lines end spent, wide, hide, bent, present, chide, denied, prevent. Which form is it?

Mina plans her next poem as a Petrarchan sonnet. What has she committed herself to?

A poet promises his class a haiku. What must he hand in?

Writing a villanelle means accepting which constraint?

A playwright rewrites a scene of rhymed couplets in blank verse. What goes and what stays?

Marcus is writing a ballad for a school assembly. What do the form's conventions commit him to?

What does a Shakespearean sonnet require that a Petrarchan sonnet does not?

A poet sets out to write an epic. What does that form commit him to?

Three of these are true of a ballad. Which is not?

Which statement about free verse is false?

Which of these is NOT true of an ode?

One of these statements about the epic is wrong. Which one?

Three of these describe the Petrarchan sonnet. Which one does not?