Poetry questions and answers WAS: Re: Eighth Grade

[dumbledore11214]

> Carol:
> 
> Thank you! I don't recall learning any such thing in seventh- or
> eight-grade arithmetic, but it was a long time ago. I prefer 
English.
> 
> Now, just for fun, anyone for a lesson in meter and rhyme scheme to 
go
> with the reference to Shakespearean sonnets in another post? 
(Poetry,
> not math?) That I remember though I don't think I learned it in 
eighth
> grade.
> 
> Identify the meter (stanza three works best as it's the most 
regular)
> and rhyme scheme (count "hear" and "where" as a rhyme) of the
> following stanza and, for extra credit (no looking it up on 
Google!),
> identify the title and author of the poem:
> 
> O WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being	 
>   Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead	 
> Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,	 
>  
>   Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,	 
> Pestilence-stricken multitudes! O thou	         5
>   Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed	 
>  
> The wingèd seeds, where they lie cold and low,	 
>   Each like a corpse within its grave, until	 
> Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow	 
>  
>   Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill	  10
> (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)	 
>   With living hues and odours plain and hill;	 
>  
> Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;	 
> Destroyer and preserver; hear, O hear!
> 
> Or an easier one, at least in terms of author and title:
> 
> Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
> Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
> While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
> As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
> " 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door;
> Only this, and nothing more."
> 
> Note that the second line is irregular; don't use it to determine 
the
> meter.
> 
> Carol, wondering how "anybody" remembers such things ;-)
>


Alla:

Not snipping anything on purpose, too beatiful. Just trying to figure 
the authors. First one is Shelley, I believe.

Second one - Frost?