Poetry questions and answers WAS: Re: Eighth Grade

[melody_wood14]

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>
> > 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?
>
> 
> Melody_wood14

> Second one is Poe