Poetry questions and answers WAS: Re: Eighth Grade

[Carol]

Carol earlier:
> 
> > > 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 responds:

Alla got the author right. It's Shelley, not Keats. (But they're both
Young Romantics and knew each other slightly, so you're close.) But,
yes, it's "Ode to the West Wind"--a thing of beauty and a joy forever,
to paraphrase Keats's line in a different poem altogether, "Endymion."

(Alla, I think you'd really like Shelley's poetry, or some of it, and
you might appreciate his politics as well--quite enlightened for his
time, 1792-1822. He died before his thirtieth birthday.)
 
Carol, who's waiting to see what other posters say before revealing
any more answers