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Narrative PoetryReview
Review Questions
Number a piece of paper from 1-15
1. What is the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or
song?
2. What are groups of repeated lines, usually of
the same length and follow the same
pattern of meter and rhyme and are used like paragraphs in a story?
3. What is the meter of this stanza?
She went to work until she grew too old,
Came home at night to feed the eunuch cat
That kept the mat warm and its eyeballs cold.
She walked, but ran to wrinkles, then to fat,
4. What is the meter of this stanza?
O, my luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
O, my luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.
5. What is the meter of this stanza?
O thou, new-year, delaying long,
Delayest the sorrow in my blood,
That longs to burst a frozen bud
And flood a fresher throat with song
6. What type of stanza is this?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
7. What type of stanza is this?
A still small voice spake unto me:
'Thou art so full of misery,
Were it not better not to be?
8. What type of stanza is this?
I found a starfish in the bay
When I was fishing yesterday
9. What type of stanza is this?
My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin,
They sang sometimes a song of the field mouse,
That for because their livelihood was but so thin
10. Who is the protagonist of “The Ballad of the Harp-
Weaver”
11. What is the point of view of the poem?
12. What does the mother use to make the boy some
clothes?
13. What happened to the boy’s mother at the end?
14. What is the mood of the story?
15. Who is the author?
AnswersTrade papers with a neighbor
1. What is the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or
song?Rhyme Scheme or Meter
2. What are groups of repeated lines, usually of
the same length and follow the same
pattern of meter and rhyme and are used like paragraphs in a story?
Stanzas
3. What is the meter of this stanza?
She went to work until she grew too old,
Came home at night to feed the eunuch cat
That kept the mat warm and its eyeballs cold.
She walked, but ran to wrinkles, then to fat,
AB
AB
4. What is the meter of this stanza?
O, my luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
O, my luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.
ABCB
5. What is the meter of this stanza?
O thou, new-year, delaying long,
Delayest the sorrow in my blood,
That longs to burst a frozen bud
And flood a fresher throat with song
ABB
A
6. What type of stanza is this?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Quatrain
7. What is type of stanza is this?
A still small voice spake unto me:
'Thou art so full of misery,
Were it not better not to be?
Triplet
8. What type of stanza is this?
I found a starfish in the bay
When I was fishing yesterday
Couplet
9. What type of stanza is this?
My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin,
They sang sometimes a song of the field mouse,
That for because their livelihood was but so thin
Tercet
10. Who is the protagonist of “The Ballad of the Harp-
Weaver”
the boy/ the child
11. What is the point of view of the poem?
1st person
12. What does the mother use to make the boy some
clothes?
the harp
13. What happened to the boy’s mother at the end?
she dies
14. What is the mood of the story?
sad, unhappy, somber, woeful, depressing, sorrowful, desolate,mournful, despondent, doleful,despondent, miserable, etc.
15. Who is the author?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1. Count up how many are correct
2. Write that number on the top of the page
3. Circle it
4. Pass the paper back to it’s owner
Follow these directions
The HighwaymanAlfred Noyes
Setting: England in the 17th-18th century
A highway man is a person who robs passengers on the highway
Red coats are soldiers
King George was the king of England during this period
A musket is a type of gun they had in those days
A FEW THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE READING
Part oneChecking for understanding
Questions Answers
1. What is the Meter?
2. Who came riding up the
road?
3. Who was he coming to see?
4. What was her name?
5. What did she look like?
6. What did the highway man
promise Bess?
7. Who was listening?
1. A A B C B
2. The highwayman
3. The Landlord’s daughter
4. Bess
5. Black hair and black eyes
6. That he would come to her
by midnight
7. Tim the ostler (stableman)
Part TwoChecking for understanding
Questions Answers
1. Who came marching to town?
2. What did they do to Bess?
3. What did her finger touch?
4. What did they hear on the road?
5. What did Bess do when she heard
him coming?
6. Why did Bess kill herself?
7. What happened to the
highwayman?
8. What happened after their death?
1. The red coats (soldiers)
2. They tied her up
3. The trigger of the musket
4. The “tlot, tlot” of the horse
5. She pulled the trigger and killed
herself.
6. To warn her lover of the trap
7. He was shot down in the highway?
8. Their ghosts haunted the Inn