Shakespeare, Sonnet 73: "That time of year thou mayst in me behold / When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang / Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang." What is the rhyme scheme?

Blake, "The Tiger": "In what distant deeps or skies / Burnt the fire of thine eyes? / On what wings dare he aspire? / What the hand dare seize the fire?" Label the rhyme scheme of this stanza.

Tennyson, In Memoriam: "Ring out the old, ring in the new, / Ring, happy bells, across the snow: / The year is going, let him go; / Ring out the false, ring in the true." What is the rhyme scheme?

Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": "At first it seemed a little speck, / And then it seemed a mist: / It moved and moved, and took at last / A certain shape, I wist." What is the rhyme scheme?

Gray's Elegy opens: "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, / The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, / The plowman homeward plods his weary way, / And leaves the world to darkness and to me." Which rhyme scheme is this?

From "The Village Blacksmith": "Under a spreading chestnut-tree / The village smithy stands; / The smith, a mighty man is he, / With large and sinewy hands; / And the muscles of his brawny arms / Are strong as iron bands." What is the rhyme scheme?

From FitzGerald's Rubaiyat: "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, / A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness-- / Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!" What is the rhyme scheme?

Poe, "Eldorado": "Gaily bedight, / A gallant knight, / In sunshine and in shadow, / Had journeyed long, / Singing a song, / In search of Eldorado." Label this stanza's rhyme scheme.

Shakespeare, Sonnet 29: "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes". Which meter does this line follow?

Longfellow, "The Song of Hiawatha": "By the shores of Gitche Gumee". Name the meter of this line.

Byron, "The Destruction of Sennacherib": "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold". Which meter is this?

Wordsworth: "I wandered lonely as a Cloud". Which meter does this line follow?

Longfellow, Evangeline: "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,". Name the meter of this line.

Count the feet in the opening line of Gray's Elegy: "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day". How many metrical feet does it have?

Tennyson, In Memoriam: "I hold it true, whate'er befall". How many feet are in this line?

Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": "The bloody Sun, at noon". How many feet does this line have?

Each stanza of a ballad runs to four lines. What is a four-line stanza called?

A sonnet's last two lines rhyme with each other and sum up the argument. What is that pair of lines called?

A poet sets the lines out in threes: three lines, a blank space, three more lines, and so on down the page. What is each of those groups called?

After the turn, a sonnet's remaining six lines stand together as one unit. What is a six-line unit called?

A poem is printed in eight-line stanzas with a blank line between them. What is an eight-line stanza called?

A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter rhymes ababcdcdefefgg. Which sonnet form is that?

Coleridge writes: "It moved and moved, and took at last / A certain shape, I wist." The first line carries no punctuation at its end and its sentence finishes inside the next line. What is that called?

In Coleridge's line "Day after day, day after day," a comma falls inside the line rather than at its end. Which prosodic term names that?

In one stanza, every line closes with a period or a semicolon and each line finishes its own sentence. What are lines like these?

Poe, "The Raven": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,". "Dreary" and "weary" rhyme, and both sit within this one line. What is that?

Dickinson: "The Stillness in the Room / Was like the Stillness in the Air – / Between the Heaves of Storm –". "Room" and "Storm" share a final consonant but not their vowel sound. What is that?

Every one of a ballad's eight stanzas closes with the same line, word for word. What is that repeated line called?

A sonnet's ninth line opens with "But" and reverses the argument its first eight lines had been building. What is that turn called?

A sonnet closes: "For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings / That then I scorn to change my state with kings." "Brings" and "kings" rhyme, and each stands at the finish of its line. What kind of rhyme is that?