Poetry questions and answers WAS: Re: Eighth Grade

[Geoff Bannister]

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<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> > Carol:

> > 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:

Geoff:
I'm not into metres, but without Googling (honest!) I think it's 
Keats "Ode to the West Wind"?

Carol:
> > 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."

Geoff:
Hmmm. I know it and can't out a finger on it immediately.