Poetry questions and answers

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
> <dumbledore11214@> 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.

Geoff (Answering myself):
Blast. Alla's right. And the other one is EAP - I know I ought to 
have got  it - I read most of his stuff years ago....