Poetry Form Identification Worksheet

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NAME: _____________________________
DATE: _____________________________
PERIOD: _____________________________
POETRY FORM IDENTIFICATION WORKSHEET
(TOTAL: ______ OUT OF 20 POINTS)
INSTRUCTIONS: Read each poem below and identify the following forms of poetry.
1. Rhyme scheme – example, abacba
2. Count the total number of lines, and if it’s a SONNET, identify the quatrains and the couplet. If it’s NOT a sonnet,
then leave it alone.
3. If it’s a SONNET, count the syllables to see if each line is written in iambic pentameter. Write on top of each syllable
the correct symbol.
POEM #1:
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,
Thy youth’s proud livery, so gaz’d on now,
Will be a tatter’d weed, of small worth held:
Then being ask’d, where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days,
To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.
How much more praise deserv’d thy beauty’s use,
If thou couldst answer ‘This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,’
Proving his beauty by succession thine!
This were to be new made when thou art old,
And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it cold.
Rhyme scheme for Poem #1 =
EXTRA CREDIT (5 POINTS): Use the strategies we’ve learned in this class to identify the speaker, the subject and the main
idea. Be sure to refer back to lines in the poem to support your point.

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